{"id":997,"date":"2011-10-10T15:09:52","date_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/?p=997"},"modified":"2011-10-10T15:09:52","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T15:09:52","slug":"censimento-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/italian\/censimento-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Censimento 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

About a month ago we opened the mail box to find an envelope as thick as a brick containing il censimento generale 2011<\/strong> (the 2011 national census). This is the fifteenth national census, the first taking place in 1861, the year of Italy\u2019s unification. Since then it has been repeated every 10 years, with the exception of 1941 due to the Second World War. <\/p>\n

This year\u2019s census digs deeply (31 pages deep!) into our family history, education, employment, and the type of accommodation we live in. How deeply? Well they want to know things such as: Where was your father born? What is your mother\u2019s maiden name? What sort of heating system do you have? How is your hot water heated? How many bathrooms do you have? Do you have a bath tub or a shower?<\/em> (hmmm, so much for privacy!)<\/p>\n

They also want to know how long it took to me to get to work last Wednesday, how I travelled to work, and how many different means of public transports I had to use (answers: 0, N\/A, 0). To my husband, who is used to the British census which is a simple double sided A4 form, this came as a bit of a shock, but to most Italians it\u2019s just routine, people always want to know each other\u2019s fatti propri <\/strong>private business, don\u2019t they? The main difference with this year\u2019s census is that for the first time ever the form is available online.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, 9th of October, was the official opening of the Census website. According to ISTAT, the Institute for Statistics, the opening of the website was \u201cun grande successo di adesioni alla compilazione del questionario via internet, nelle prime ore ci sono state punte di 500.000 accessi in contemporanea al sito\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 "A very successful  participation in the completion of the questionnaire via the Internet, in the early hours, there were peaks of 500,000 simultaneous accesses to the site". Telecom, the telephone and Internet company that provides the site says: \u201cIl grande afflusso di utenti ha creato di conseguenza rallentamenti e difficolt\u00e0 di accesso. Telecom \u00e8 gi\u00e0 al lavoro per aumentare la potenza del sistema installato\u201d <\/strong>\u2013 \u201cThe great influx of users has slowed things down and caused difficulties in accessing the site. Telecom is already working on increasing the power of the system\u201d. <\/p>\n

However, to give you an insight into the reality of what users are dealing with here is an account given by one of the 500,000 people that tried to fill in the online form yesterday: <\/p>\n

\u201cMi sembra tutto facile. Compilo la prima schermata, si apre la seconda, ma mentre scrivo voglio controllare una cosa che ho scritto e allora clicco indietro. Non l’avessi mai fatto, la schermata non torna indietro, la pagina \u00e8 \u00abscaduta\u00bb dice il mio schermo. Allora ricomincio, ma questa volta non si entra, la clessidra diventa permanente\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cEverything seems easy. I fill in the first page, the second one opens, but while I\u2019m writing I want to check something I wrote and so I click the back button. I shouldn\u2019t have done it, the screen doesn\u2019t go back, my screen informs me that the page is \u2018timed out\u2019. So I restart, but this time I can\u2019t get in, the little hour glass is stuck\u201d\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2026\u201cmezz’ora dopo ci riesco. Ricomincio la compilazione on line, a un certo punto devo tornare indietro di nuovo perch\u00e9 ho un dubbio: \u00e8 normale, mica sto sulla carta che basta un’occhiata al foglio di sinistra e ho risolto. Ma indietro non si torna, o meglio: si torna nel tunnel di prima, pagina scaduta, \u2018capacity problems\u2019, riprova pi\u00f9 tardi\u201d \u2013 <\/strong>\u201chalf an hour later I manage to log in. I restart the online compilation, at a certain point I have to go back again because I have a doubt: it\u2019s normal, I\u2019m not working on paper where it\u2019s simple to glance at the left page in order to sort it out. But there\u2019s no way back, or rather: I\u2019m back in the previous tunnel, page timed out, capacity problems, try again later\u201d <\/strong>\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n

\"SmashComputer\"<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2026\u201cMa io ormai ho perso la pazienza. Il modulo l’ho compilato. Domani lo porto alla posta, come 10 anni fa\u201d<\/strong> \u2013 \u201cBut by now I\u2019ve lost my patience. I\u2019ve filled in the paper form. Tomorrow I\u2019ll take it to the post office, as I did 10 years ago\u201d.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t you just love the way that technology makes life so simple!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

About a month ago we opened the mail box to find an envelope as thick as a brick containing il censimento generale 2011 (the 2011 national census). This is the fifteenth national census, the first taking place in 1861, the year of Italy\u2019s unification. Since then it has been repeated every 10 years, with the…<\/p>\n

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