As part of our series of posts on the 2021/2022 UK censuses, we explore how the UK Data Service offers access to UK census data from 1971 to 2011, and how the 2021/2022 censuses have developed from earlier versions.
When people think about the UK censuses, they israel rcs data tend to think in terms of the form they fill in themselves or perhaps a historical census record they have accessed when exploring their family tree. These are examples of individual records.
For many uses of the census, researchers, analysts, and policymakers need to take a broader view. Instead of looking at individual people and their information, they want or need to find out about the characteristics of areas, in other words the different types of people in different places. The data have been made available for a large range of area sizes from country-wide down to output areas (OA). The minimum OA size was 20 resident households and 50 resident people, but the target size was 50 households.