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What happens to the forms?

The forms are sorted into areas for Scotland, England and Wales, and Northern Ireland. In 2001, forms, like the Household Form which are bound, were guillotined to allow individual pages to be fed into a machine. A computer with an optical scanning device then 'read' the pages very quickly and recorded the data electronically. The data was then stored on computer and microfilm.

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