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Beyond 2021 – transforming the Census

Becky Tinsley
June 20, 2017

Categories: Census, Data, ONS

The 2021 Census will be the UK’s first predominantly online census. For future decades ONS is exploring the possibility of a Census based on linking together administrative data supported by survey information.

Becky Tinsley on how ONS is refining its approach to gathering and using administrative data – information people have already supplied to other government bodies – to produce census-type outputs.

A good start for the 2017 Test

Ben Humberstone
April 7, 2017

Categories: Census, Data, ONS

Preparations are well underway for the 2021 Census with a major test exercise now being carried out. Ben Humberstone reflects on the journey to-date.

It’s all about inclusion: how ONS plans to support the digital have-nots.

Sharon Bexley
April 4, 2017

Categories: Census, Data

With more than a fifth of the population still offline, Sharon Bexley explains the importance of assisted digital support for the census – and the future.

It’s the Census… but not as we know it

Becky Tinsley
February 27, 2017

Categories: Census, ONS

With the next census coming in 2021, Becky Tinsley looks at what the future holds for the nation’s longest-running and largest survey.

Keeping the census relevant in a changing world

Ian Cope
February 8, 2017

Categories: Census, Office for National Statistics, ONS, Population

In an era when ‘national treasures’ come and go, it’s rare to find something that’s earned the public’s trust and affection generation after generation. But every 10 years, residents in England and Wales take the time to participate in the census. Ian Cope explains how we’re already planning for 2021.