It was decided by the Policy and Resources Committee that there should be a census every ten years, rather than every five years as has historically been the case.
However, St Helier Constable Simon Crowcroft has lodged proposals to reinstate having a census twice a decade because he has concerns that valuable information on the Island’s population will not be compiled.
The Constable says that if the census cannot be arranged for next spring, then it can be held the following year.
In his report accompanying the proposition, Mr Crowcroft says that many far-reaching decisions have been approved recently, including changes to the tax structure, the Economic Growth plan and an imminent new political system.
‘These will play a part in how Jersey develops.
Now is not the time to abandon the main tool of gathering evidence about the effects of change on the Island’s demographic structure.
That tool is the census which has been carried out at five-year intervals since 1971,’ he said.
