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==Boycotts==
Censuses have sometimes been the subject of threatened or realized boycotts. Political historian Laurence Cooley categorizes census boycotts into those 'motivated by concerns specifically related to the census itself' and those where 'the rationale for boycotting is not to influence the questionnaire design or the enumeration process, but rather in pursuit of aims that are incidental to the census'.<ref name="a362">{{cite journal | last=Cooley | first=Laurence | title=‘No status – no census!’ The causes and consequences of the 1971 and 1981 Northern Ireland census boycotts | journal=Contemporary British History | volume=39 | issue=1 | date=2025-01-02 | issn=1361-9462 | doi=10.1080/13619462.2024.2387584 | doi-access=free | pages=105–142}}</ref> Boycotts of the first kind include Kenya in 2009, when some ethnic groups threatened to boycott the census if they were not allocated their own categories,<ref name="t454">{{cite journal | last=Balaton-Chrimes | first=Samantha | title=Counting as Citizens: Recognition of the Nubians in the 2009 Kenyan Census | journal=Ethnopolitics | volume=10 | issue=2 | date=2011 | issn=1744-9057 | doi=10.1080/17449057.2011.570983 | pages=205–218 | url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17449057.2011.570983 | access-date=2025-05-20}}</ref> and Myanmar in 2014, when nationalists threatened a boycott if the Rohingya were allowed to self-identify.<ref name="a362"/> Examples of boycotts where the census was more of a symbolic target include the 1911 UK census, which suffrage organizations boycotted to protest against women's lack of voting rights, using the slogan 'no vote, no census'.<ref name="x735">{{cite journal | last=Liddington | first=J. | last2=Crawford | first2=E. | title='Women do not count, neither shall they be counted': Suffrage, Citizenship and the Battle for the 1911 Census | journal=History Workshop Journal | volume=71 | issue=1 | date=2011-03-01 | issn=1363-3554 | doi=10.1093/hwj/dbq064 | pages=98–127 | url=https://academic.oup.com/hwj/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/hwj/dbq064 | access-date=2025-05-20}}</ref> Other prominent cases of census boycotts include West Germany in 1983 and 1987.<ref name="u962">{{cite journal | last=Hannah | first=Matthew G. | title=Calculable territory and the West German census boycott movements of the 1980s | journal=Political Geography | volume=28 | issue=1 | date=2009 | doi=10.1016/j.polgeo.2008.12.001 | pages=66–75 | url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0962629809000055 | access-date=20 May 2025}}</ref>