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“I therefore have to use The Force. And weirdly, this doesn't work very well. I don't understand why, because on the last census, I put my religion down as Jedi Knight...”
― Jeremy Clarkson, The Top Gear years

“Hold it right there. You men from the bank?" "You Wash's boy?" "Yessir and Daddy told me I'm to shoot whoever's from the bank." "Well, we ain't from the bank young feller." "Yessir, I'm also s'posed to shoot folks serving papers." "We ain't got no papers neither." "I nicked the census man." "Now there's a good boy.”
― Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

“The political reputation of Servius rests upon his organization of society according to a fixed scale of rank and fortune. He originated the census, a measure of the highest utility to a state destined, as Rome was, to future preeminence; for by means of its public service, in peace as well as in war, could thence forward be regularly organized on the basis of property; every man's contribution could be in proportion to his means.”
― Livy, The History of Rome, Books 1-5: The Early History of Rome

“the U.S. Census Bureau has not asked about religious affiliation since 1946”
― Robert P. Jones, The End of White Christian America

“census: (n.) being counted so we can be discounted.”
― Sol Luckman, The Angel's Dictionary

“A census is an exercise by the majority to keep majority.”
― Mantaranjot Mangat, Plotless

“Considering the Scottish census through these theoretical lenses, where the census is not a neutral representation of a reality but a tool to construct a governable population, raises questions as to whether the census is an exercise in knowledge construction or a tool to bolster the state’s capacity to manage its population. These two objectives are not exclusive: improved knowledge likely facilitates the design of more efficient ways to coerce, control and discipline people who live within a state's jurisdiction. However, if the construction of knowledge is no longer the primary purpose of a census, this throws into doubt then need for a census to collect accurate information that authentically represents the lives and experiences of the people about whom the data relates.”
― Kevin Guyan, Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“Although the designs of the trans and gender identity questions in the Scottish, English and Welsh census differ, they both attempt to navigate the same ambition: avoid use of the term ‘cisâ€�. Other census questions, related to Identity characteristics, ask respondents to select the option to which they most closely identify. Questions require respondents to confirm an identity (for example, ‘I am white Scottishâ€�) rather than negate an identity (for example, ‘I am not Scottish Indianâ€�). The design of the trans and gender identity questions depart from this approach are they require the majority of respondents (those who identify as cis, estimated to be around 99 per cent of the population) to answer the way that negates and identity (‘I am not transâ€�). Ashley has noted how, in English, ‘currently, no word exists in our vocabulary for the broad category which includes being trans and being cis”
― Kevin Guyan, Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“NRS proposed using technology in the online version of Scotland's 2022 census that would predict and auto-populate a response option for people who started typing in text for the write-in box for questions on sexual orientation, religion, nationality and ethnicity.”
― Kevin Guyan, Queer Data: Using Gender, Sex and Sexuality Data for Action

“It wasn’t until 2000 that the Census Bureau started letting people choose more than one race category to describe themselves, and
it still only recognizes five standard racial categories: white, black/African-American,
American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander.”
― Facing History and Ourselves, Holocaust and Human Behavior