If it is a duplicate printing onto the fiche of a page - then you can safely ignore the "extra" copies.
This is not a particularly rare occurrance, it is just an error that creeps in during the microfilming. (Better that they film two copies, than actually miss out pages)
Transcribe ONLY the Folio Numbers that have been stamped onto every second page of the census - DO NOT correct or otherwise adjust any Folio numbers.
Please make a note in your MYNOTES file so that the Checker will be able to see how you have interpreted this problem.

I would convert this "line" into THREE INCENS lines:
(1) Schedule= 0 ... Providence B C Church & School .... U(nocc)
(2) - an identical entry, since we are told there are "2 x U"
(3) Sched = 97: ..... Head = Joseph BUTT ... etc
From my experience it often looks as though the Enumerator wrote up his book and then had to go back because he had forgotten the "Unoccupied" instruction; so he had to make the entry on a line already used for a real household.

If there is any doubt at all, then enter UNK (unknown)!

At first reading of this we have two schedule numbers used - so please type in the best entries you can against these and flag the address line in both cases, with a brief explanation of the problem written into "MYNOTES".
It is not uncommon to find house numbers omitted in this manner - the enumerator may have been required to diverge slightly from a 'main' street', and other houses in that particular block could appear on another enumeration.
The best response for many of these curious entries is not to spend too much time trying to resolve the 'oddities' - make sure you write "Notes" and carry on with the rest. As long as there is something typed for every line of the census page we will be able to look at things in detail at the Checker stage.

The codes are entered as u,b,v or n in the "Address Flag Box" for DOS versions
In WINDOWS versions you select the appropriate [button] on the "Header" screen.

The NOTES field is for communication to the Checker later - and will not be included in the final work. Space is limited so the "?" is certainly used (but only in NOTES) to save keying, as perhaps with " ? surname ? " - or even " ? s/n " is sufficient to draw attention to your doubts.

You could have searched the County Pick-list using L to find your answer which is LDN.

That is the defined procedure!

We must beware what we type in the address field for these instances: the query infers that "#8 Queen Street" is repeated against each Schedule - so it gets typed in.
The Plymouth patch that I am currently doing would (by comparison) give "#8 Queen Street" only against the first "household" at that address - and no ditto signs or any other info against the other households, although each has their own Schedule.
In those instances we MUST NOT INTERPRET that the address is unchanged. It is not given so we do not type anything!!!! (only the dash "-")
I know it can be argued as fairly evident that they are going to be "#8" until we reach "#9" BUT the point is that we are TRANSCRIBING what was written, not INTERPRETING what was written (or omitted).

Simply: "don't worry about the Schedule Number. If there b'ain't be one there, then just enter zero".
As you said, the page is a different format, so everything in the Barracks is "Schedule 0"
The Checker will correct the other matters.

If there is space, then I suggest you put all information present (and over-run to Notes if necessary).

NO, but don't worry about what has been done. It is very easy for the Checker to correct this error - almost "with one stroke of the keys" to correct the whole page.
The IMPORTANT thing is to get into the habit of checking (for yourself) that the Header information is correct before it is saved.

Both statements are correct.
Please "Pack" the one set for now, make two floppy copies of the CENSnnnn.ZIP file (in your UKCENSUS\DATA folder) and label them pending future instructions from your Regional Co-ordinator.

This one IS a case of "if it ain't written then don't bother".
Instances of an empty page are also common at the end of an Enumerator.

....I don't think so: the Notes and Flags are intended for clearing up obscure technical points only. That the situation you describe occurs is what the researcher would find if looking at the original census, and that is the picture we should transcribe without further concern.

No problem to be encountered, but I hope you "Packed" at the completion of a whole Piece - not just at the end of a fiche ...?
You will find that you can "re-open" any Parish in the same Piece (previously closed as finished) either to look at it, or indeed, to continue additions. DOS versions

You must have scored the Jackpot :-)
(Folio numbers usually are hand-stamped on the top right hand corner of every second page: A Folio Number also applies to the following (un-numbered page).
If there is no Folio Numbering - enter "0" (zero) and make a note of your problem in "MYNOTES"

....don't be !! This is a matter that is easily sorted out by the Checker (poor guy!). Simply enter the remaining data with correct values (if possible), and please don't worry unduly!!

Without having seen the fiche nor a map - how about EBRINGTON?
I am sure we are all having our frustrations with the enumerators but my own personal "Aid" for these puzzles is to move back from the fiche reader and get a more general view of the page and line. Sometimes by concentrating too hard on a specific word we can block out some of the possibilities.
I would always say - don't spend too long on a single entry, FLAG the offending word and move on. That way will avoid any doubts about whether we are up to this mammoth task.
(Rest assured that if we cannot sort a word out - and if the Checker cannot sort it out either - then some researcher looking at the fiche is going to have exactly the same problem!)

I suggest just inserting the comment (in Notes) against the mother....

Not a disaster, but you're right, those errors, once made, cannot be corrected within IN-CENS.
However, the checking program is designed to pick up such problems. So not to worry.

Everything you need should be in that first download from the Internet (hopefully you downloaded BOTH the INCENS.EXE and the CONPARMS.EXE?)
These both get run ON THE FLOPPY before you run A:\INSTALL which effects the final transfer onto your hard drive.
(Feedback: - Failure to read and follow the installation instructions!)
The important aspect here is to follow exactly all instructions provided on the download web-page.

The "Chapman Codes" that we are using on the project cover the Counties of the British Isles and include SCT, WLS, IOW and LND for use in appropriate situations.
ALL OVERSEAS births should be treated as :-
EITHER "OVB" where the person is stated to be "a British Subject" (or words to that effect)
OR "OVF" for other foreign countries
and in each case any country detail is entered into the "Place" field. Note that this may include such as "(OVF) Dresden, Germany"
As always, if you are left with any doubts about what you have entered please "flag" the relevant flag space, and make a brief comment in "Notes".

The general rule is to give it your best shot and flag - to warn the Checker of your doubt.

...well, to look at it another way, that might have been 4 or 10 dwellings with multiple occupants, so having 10 uninhabs is quicker :-)
Sorry, there is no other way... ...each has to be entered individually.

"Pack for Sending" only when you have completed the whole "Piece" (usually two or more fiche). When you have done the "Packing" please contact your Co-ordinator for further instructions.

... can only think that either you got some "forbidden character" into the field, or maybe there was something wrong in one of the "mandatory" fields which you somehow put right before entering Buckland.

Don't worry about the number of xxx's - they will be there to show that the transcriber has some doubt or other - makes the Checker's job so much easier than having to guess "why have they transcribed it this way?"

Despite the original definition in the "DATA FIELDS DESCRIPTIONS" section of the project notes, the preferred method will be:-
"... key the ORIGINAL into the Birthplace Field, and your (corrected) option in the Notes Field... Put a 'x' in the Place Flag"

This policy change need NOT concern work already done. It occurs because of the developing VALCENS routine which will permit data-base search for both the original and the revised placenames. This feature cannot be incorporated readily into the Data Entry (INCENS) routines.

This is one of the idiosyncracies of "the English Way" ... the county of HAMPSHIRE is frequently referred to as HANTS.
Similarly NORTHAMPTONSHIRE and NORTHANTS.
Just one of those things ...

1. The Checking programme is going to allow such corrections to be made quite easily ...
2. There is a very big risk that the file may become "corrupt" in terms of its ability to be handled by the INCENS processes.
Attempts to edit the "finished" edition could result in the need to scrap all of a person's hard work as "unreadable"

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMP TO CORRECT IN THIS MANNER.

DOS versions>There is provision on INCENS to type the letter "n" in the Header Check Field (where we would type in "u" for the unoccupied houses...)
So although the Schedule number has not been used by the Enumerator WE should type it in with the Flag "n" (to denote "not used by the Enumerator").
WINDOWS versions have specific [buttons] on the Header page
Doing this will tell our eventual Internet searchers that the omission was not a mistake by the transcribing team.

You can create the missing person as a stand-alone family, but if that person is further down the file, you should also go back and use the Notes box of the last entered family member to state that that is what you have done...The Checker will be able to re-align the records.

The Sched No field is numeric, and the field instructions ask for a zero ("0") to be inserted if missing.