Northern Ireland Census User Needs Consultation

Guidance for organisations with multiple respondents

Ideally, we would prefer one response per organisation, but we appreciate that this is not always possible. To produce an organisational response, you may need to coordinate content from others in your organisation who have the detailed knowledge of how your organisation utilises census outputs. They will be best placed to provide the information we require as evidence.

One person needs to coordinate the response on behalf of these experts. It’s straightforward:

Instructions for the coordinator


  1. You can start your online response by clicking the link at the bottom of the overview page, which will take you through to the consultation questionnaire.



  1. Complete ‘Section 1: About you’ on the questionnaire. Use the radio button to declare that you are responding on behalf of an organisation and name your organisation in the text box. When asked for contact details, use the email address that you would like to be associated with this response then proceed to complete the remainder of the questions on this page.



  1. At the bottom of the ‘About you’ section, click the button ‘Save and come back later’.



  1. Once you have clicked the ‘Save and come back later’ button, you will be directed to the page below on which you will be required to submit an email address. Please use the email address from which you would like to coordinate your responses. Once completed, please click on the ‘Save and send email’ button.



  1. As coordinator, you will then receive an email to this address containing a unique URL. This URL can be emailed to others in your organisation and works as a login to your consultation response. If this URL doesn’t work, the email will also contain a unique response ID, response key and back-up URL that can be used.





  1. Once others in your organisation have completed their sections, they should press the ‘Save and come back later’ button again. Please use the same email address that was used in step 4 above. Please do not hit the ‘Submit Response’ button at this point, as this may submit an incomplete questionnaire if others have not yet contributed.


  2. If you have any technical issues when completing the online questionnaire, please contact DoF Citizen Space Enquiries and use the unique response ID to refer to your organisational response.


  3. You should only make the final submission of your organisation’s consultation response once everyone has completed their sections. You should enter the email address that you have used to coordinate the responses and click the ‘Submit Response’ button.



  1. Once submitted, you will be taken to the following page that will provide you with a unique response ID that will allow you to refer to your response if you need to contact DoF Citizen Space Enquiries.



  1. You will then be sent an email confirming your organisation’s submission, with a unique response ID to quote should you wish to contact us. If you have any problems, you can contact us:

    Northern Ireland Census User Needs Consultation Team

    Email:

    Telephone: 028 9025 5156