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2001 Census Programme
Delivering UK Census Data to Researchers: Progress
and Challenges
David MartinUniversity of Southampton and
ESRC/JISC Census Programme
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2001 Census Programme
Overview
• UK Census basics
• Output products
• The ESRC/JISC Programme
• Access arrangements
• Changing environment
• Towards 2011
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2001 Census Programme
UK census basics
• Decennial data collection, most recently 29 April 2001
• Digital data series from modern censuses 1971 onwards
• NB national differences: England and Wales; Scotland; Northern Ireland
• Multiple products: standard and commissioned outputs
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2001 Census Programme
What is a census?
• Questionnaire delivered to every household
• Legal obligation: 96% coverage
• Very many uses and users in all sectors
• Single most important social data source for small areas
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2001 Census Programme
Census topics
• Age, sex, marital status, household structure
• Country of birth/ethnicity
• Health/disability
• Economic status
• Housing, amenities
• Travel to work and cars
• Qualifications
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2001 Census Programme
Output products
• Principal datasets– Aggregate statistics– Boundaries– Microdata samples (SARs)– Interaction data– Longitudinal data (ONS LS, SLS)
• Supporting datasets– Lookup tables– Metadata
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2001 Census Programme
• Data acquisition and purchase for academic use
• Single online registration service provided by Census Registration Service for online resources
• Support for ONS and Scottish Longitudinal Studies
The ESRC/JISC programme
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2001 Census Programme
The ESRC/JISC programme
• 34,000 registered users in 594 HE/FE institutions (end April)
• 5,900 new registrations (Feb-April)
• 27,000 user accesses (Feb-April)• New ESRC-funded round 2006-11
to include integrated portal service and research and development projects
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2001 Census Programme
Data support units
• Census Registration Service
• Census dissemination unit
• UKBORDERS
• Centre for Census and Survey Research
• Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support
• Scottish Longitudinal Study
• Census Interaction Data Service
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2001 Census Programme
Access arrangements
• Programme aim to protect the user from cost and complexity
• Multiple suppliers, multiple licences
• Different funding arrangements for successive censuses
• ESRC: 2001 Census Access Partner and commissioned output
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2001 Census Programme
Registration and data access
• One-stop registration jointly with Economic and Social Data Service
• Based on Athens authentication, although moving to Shibboleth
• Direct access to online services
• Some datasets require acceptance of additional special conditions
• Most sensitive longitudinal and microdata not available online
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2001 Census Programme
Registration – via Athens• Complete online registration process
• Agree to the End User Licence• Respond to confirmation email.
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2001 Census Programme
Special conditions
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2001 Census Programme
Changing environment
• 2001 One Number Census and Output Area Geography
• Enumeration difficulties, address listing and response rates
• International retreat from censuses (France, USA)
• 2011 post out/post back
• Flexible enumeration strategy
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2001 Census Programme
Information environment
• Cross-government focus on neighbourhood renewal
• Need for information
• Role of census
• Increasing use of administrative information
• Neighbourhood Statistics Service
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2001 Census Programme
Towards 2011
• New census portal: integrated searchable metadata
• New methodological development: federated dissemination databases
• Further convergence of census and administrative information
• New round of discussion about access arrangements and costs
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2001 Census Programme
How to find out more…
http://census.ac.uk