117,500 enumerators were employed to assist with collection of census forms in Great Britain.

[5][6][7][8][9] Other new questions were on limiting long-term illness and term-time address for students.

Despite being compulsory, a total of 572,000 people failed to respond to both the census form and follow-up interviews, 220,000 of them being males aged 20 to 29.

It has been suggested that part of the lack of response could be due to people attempting to avoid registration for the poll tax.

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