Today is the first time I have filled in a census. (In previous years, I wasn't the householder.) I have to confess, it wasn't until I read a blog post by somebody (I forget whom now) scratching their heads about the people complaining about having to give information to the government, on the grounds that if we don't let the government know our situations, how else are they to provide us with the services we need, that I remembered the census wasn't primarily in order to let people like me do genealogical research a century down the line...