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2001 resident population |
See Population Base |
Population
Base |
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1991
resident population |
The count
of all persons recorded as resident in households in an area, even if
they were elsewhere on Census night, plus residents in communal establishments
who were present in the establishment on Census night. In contrast to
2001, students and schoolchildren are counted as resident at their vacation
address. Persons from wholly absent households are included.
In 1991
there was also a count of the population present in an area on Census
night (Persons Present Population Base 1991). This information is not
available for 2001. |
Population
Base |
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Accommodation
Type |
Accommodation type describes the
type of accommodation occupied by a single household, or if unoccupied,
available for a single household, for example the whole of a terraced
house or a flat in a purpose built block of flats. |
Household
Space |
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Adult |
In
most output an adult in a household is defined as any person who is not
a dependent child. In the univariate table (UV47) giving the alternative
classification of Household Composition the term adult is used to refer
to any person aged 16 and over. |
Dependent
Child |
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Age |
Age
is derived from the date of birth question and is the age at a person's
last birthday before or on Census Day. Dates of birth that imply an age
over 110 are treated as invalid and the person's age is imputed. |
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All visitor household |
A household
that completed a census form but has no residents. All visitor households
are classified as second/ holiday homes in output. |
Second
residence/holiday accommodation
Population
Base
Household
resident |
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Amenities
|
Amenities comprise central heating,
bath/shower and toilet. |
Central
Heating
Bath/shower
and toilet |
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Area |
The area
in hectares on Census Day. |
Census Day
2001 |
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Area of
destination
|
In migration
statistics, the usual address on Census day gives the area of destination.
In travel statistics, the address of place of work (place of work or study
in Scotland) gives the area of destination.
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Place
of work
Place
of work or study
Day-time
population
Workplace
population
Migrant
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Area of origin |
In migration
statistics, the address one year before Census gives the area of origin.
In travel statistics the usual address on Census day gives the area of
origin. |
Migrant
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Armed Forces |
A
member of the Armed Forces is identified by the occupation categories
'Officers in Armed Forces' or 'NCOs and other ranks', so does not include
civilians working for the Armed Forces. |
Occupation
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Bath/shower
and toilet |
A household's
accommodation is described as having sole use of bath/shower and toilet
if it has a bath/shower and a toilet for use only by that household. 'Without
sole use' means that the household has to share, or does not have, one
or both amenities. The information is not available for unoccupied household
spaces.
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Household
Space
Household
Amenities
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Carer |
See provision of unpaid care |
Provision
of unpaid care |
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Cars and vans
|
The number
of cars or vans owned, or available for use, by one or more members of
a household. It includes company Cars and vans available for private use.
The count
of cars or vans in an area relates only to households. Cars or vans used
by residents of communal establishments are not counted. Households with
10 or more cars or vans are counted as having 10 cars or vans. |
Household
Communal Establishment
Resident |
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Census Day
2001 |
29 April
2001 |
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Census Night 1991 |
21-22 April
1991 |
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Central Heating
|
A household's
accommodation is described as 'with central heating' if it has central
heating in some or all rooms (whether used or not). Central heating includes
gas, oil or solid fuel central heating, night storage heaters, warm air
heating and under-floor heating. The information is not available for
unoccupied household spaces. |
Household
Space
Amenities |
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Child |
There is
no age limit on the term child. For example, a married couple living with
their son aged 40 would be classified as a family consisting of a married
couple and their child unless the son has a spouse, partner or child living
in the household. |
Dependent
Child
Family
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Cohabiting
|
Two people
are described as cohabiting if they are living together as a couple but
are not married to each other. This includes people living with a partner
of the same sex. A cohabiting person might be married (to someone not
resident in the household) but will not be shown as married or separated
in the living arrangements tables. |
Living
arrangements
Living
in a couple |
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Cohabiting
couple family |
A cohabiting
couple family consists of two people living together as a couple but not
married to each other, with or without their child(ren). The child(ren)
may belong to both members of the couple or to only one. Children are
included in the family only if they are not themselves living with a spouse
or partner and do not have any children of their own in the household.
Cohabiting couples of the same sex are included. Cohabiting couples with
their grandchild(ren) where there are no children in the intervening generation
in the household are also included. |
Same-sex
couples
Cohabiting
couple household
Family
Type
Step-family
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Cohabiting
couple household |
In most tables the term 'cohabiting
couple household' is used to describe a household that comprises a cohabiting
couple family and no other person. In the alternative Household Type variable
used in one of the univariate tables (UV68) a cohabiting couple household
is defined as a household which contains one or more cohabiting couples
but no married couples. |
Cohabiting
couple family
One family
and no others |
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Communal Establishment
|
A communal
establishment is defined as an establishment providing managed residential
accommodation. Managed means full-time or part-time supervision of the
accommodation.
In most
cases (for example, prisons, large hospitals, hotels) communal establishments
can be easily identified. However, difficulties can arise with small hotels,
guesthouses and sheltered accommodation. Special rules apply in these
cases:
Small hotels
and guesthouses are treated as communal establishments if they have the
capacity to have 10 or more guests, excluding the owner/manager and his/her
family.
Sheltered housing is treated as a communal
establishment if less than half the residents possess their own facilities
for cooking. If half or more possess their own facilities for cooking
(regardless of use) the whole establishment is treated as separate households.
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Communal Establishment
Resident |
The
rules determining whether a person is a resident in a household generally
apply in communal establishments too. Where clarification is needed, a
person is a resident of an establishment if he or she has been living,
or intends to live, in the establishment for six months or more. People
visiting the establishment on Census day who do not have a usual address
elsewhere are also classified as a resident. Usual residents absent on
Census day were left a Census form for statutory completion on their return
to the establishment.
In some
tables 'Residents' excludes members of staff and their families. |
Communal
Establishment
Visitor
Household
resident
Resident
staff and family
Persons Sleeping
Rough |
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Community
Background |
This variable
is applicable in Northern Ireland only. It identifies a person's current
religious group, if any, or the religious group brought up in for people
who do not regard themselves as belonging to any religion.
The four
categories of Community Background are:-
Catholic,
Protestant,
Other Christian and Christian-related,
Other Religions
and Philosophies,
and None.
The category
'Catholic' includes those respondents who gave their religion as Roman
Catholic, Catholic Apostolic Church, Ukrainian Catholic, Greek Catholic,
Palmarian Catholic or Catholic.
Responses
have been categorised as 'Protestant, Other Christian and Christian Related'
or 'Other Religions and Philosophies' on the basis of the best available
information, although it is acknowledged that the categorisation of some
of the smaller religions is open to interpretation. |
Religion
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Concealed
family |
A concealed family is one that does not
include the Household Reference Person |
Family
Household
Reference Person |
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Country
of Birth |
There are
five tick box responses to the country of birth question: one each for
the four parts of the UK and one for the Republic of Ireland. Where there
is no applicable tick box, people were asked to write in the present name
of their country of birth. The written responses are coded using the ONS
Geography Classification of Countries. Countries are classified in output
according to the geographical position rather than politics. For example,
the Canary Islands are classified as North Africa rather than Western
Europe even though they belong to Spain. |
Ireland
- part not specified
Language
needs indicator |
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Current
religion |
See Religion |
Religion
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Day-time Population
|
In England,
Wales and Northern Ireland the day-time population is defined for people
aged 16 to 74 as those people who do not work who are resident in the
area plus all people who are working within the area. In Scotland it is
defined as all people who are not working or studying who are resident
in the area plus all people who are working or studying within the area. |
Night
time population
Workplace
population |
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Density
(population) |
See Population density |
Population
density |
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Dental practitioners |
People with
occupation coded to SOC2000 code 2215. They are identified particularly
in the table showing professional qualifications by occupation. (Not
applicable in Scotland). |
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Dependent
Child |
A dependent
child is a person aged 0-15 in a household (whether or not in a family)
or aged 16-18 in full-time education and living in a family with his or
her parent(s). This is a change from the 1991 definition which was a person
aged 0-15 in a household or a person aged 16-18, never married, in full-time
education and economically inactive. The revised 2001 definition has been
agreed following consultation with users. An 'adult' in a household is
any person who is not a dependent child. |
Adult
Child
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Distance
travelled to work |
Applicable
in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The distance in kilometres of
a straight line between the postcode of residence and the postcode of
workplace. Not calculated for people working mainly at or from home, people
with no fixed workplace, people working on an offshore installation or
people working outside the UK. |
Distance
travelled to work or study
Population
Base |
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Distance travelled
to work or study |
Applicable
in Scotland only. The distance in kilometres of a straight line between
the postcode of residence and the postcode of the place of the person's
Main job or course of study. Not calculated for people working or studying
mainly at or from home, people with no fixed place of work or study, people
working on an offshore installation or people working or studying outside
the UK. |
Distance
travelled to work
Population
Base |
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Dwelling
|
A household's
accommodation (a household space) is defined as being in a shared dwelling
if it has accommodation type 'part of a converted or shared house', not
all the rooms (including bathroom and toilet, if any) are behind a door
that only that household can use and there is at least one other such
household space at the same address with which it can be combined to form
the shared dwelling. If any of these conditions is not met, the household
space forms an unshared dwelling. Therefore a dwelling can consist of
one household space (an unshared dwelling) or two or more household spaces
(a shared dwelling). (Special attention was paid to student accommodation).
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Household
Space
Occupied
dwelling
Vacant dwelling
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Economic Activity
|
The Economic
Activity questions apply only to people aged 16 to 74. They relate to
whether or not a person was working or looking for work in the week before
Census. The concept of Economic Activity is compatible with the International
Labour Organisation (ILO) definition of economic status. |
Economically
Active
Economically
Inactive |
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Economically
Active |
All
people who were working in the week before the Census are described as
economically active. In addition, the category includes people who were
classified as unemployed. Full-time students who are economically active
are included but are identified separately in the classification. The
economic activity questions are only asked of people aged 16 to 74. |
Unemployed
Employed
Economically
Inactive
Full-time
student |
|
Economically
Inactive |
Within the
Economic Activity classification, a person is either Economically Active
or Inactive. Specific categories of Economic Inactivity are: Retired,
Student (excludes those students who were working or in some other way
were economically active), Looking after family/ home, Permanently sick/
disabled and Other. A person who is looking for work but is not available
to start work within 2 weeks is counted as Economically Inactive. Economic
Activity questions are only asked of people aged 16 to 74. |
Economically
Active
Unemployed
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Employed
|
Any person
who did paid work in the week before the Census, whether as an employee
or self-employed, is described as employed or in employment. 'Paid work'
includes casual or temporary work, even if only for one hour; being on
a government-sponsored training scheme; being away from a job/business
ill, on maternity leave, on holiday or temporarily laid off; or doing
paid or unpaid work for their own or family business. |
Economically
Active
Main
job
Unemployed
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Employee |
The distinction
between employee and self-employed is determined by the response to the
question 'Do (did) you work as an employee or are (were) you self-employed?'
It relates to the person's Main job in the week before the Census or,
if not working in the week before the Census, their last Main job. |
Main
job
Self employed
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Establishment |
See Communal Establishment |
Communal Establishment
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Ethnic Group
|
The Ethnic
Group question records each person's perceived ethnic group and cultural
background. Although the questions differ between the different parts
of the UK, the same detailed codes are used across the UK to code the
write-in responses. In standard output the most detailed classification
used is 16 groups (England and Wales), 14 groups (Scotland) and 12 groups
(Northern Ireland). |
Welsh Identity
|
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Ethnicity |
See Ethnic Group |
Ethnic Group
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Family |
A family comprises a group of people
consisting of a married or cohabiting couple with or without child(ren),
or a lone parent with child(ren). It also includes a married or cohabiting
couple with their grandchild(ren) or a lone grandparent with his or her
grandchild(ren) where there are no children in the intervening generation
in the household. Cohabiting couples include same sex couples. Children
in couple families need not belong to both members of the couple. The
resulting groups are classified as couple families, lone parent families
or ungrouped individuals. Tables on families may analyse numbers of couple
families by whether couple married or cohabiting, whether couple has children,
etc and numbers of lone parent families by whether parent male or female,
etc. Some tables may, for completeness, include ungrouped individuals
as families, so persons living alone and unrelated adults sharing accommodation
will each be counted as a separate family. |
Child
Family
Reference Person
Cohabiting
couple family
Lone
parent family
Married
couple family
Family
Type
Step-family
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Family Reference
Person |
In a lone parent family, the Family
Reference Person (FRP) is taken to be the lone parent. In a couple family,
the FRP is chosen from the two people in the couple on the basis of their
economic activity (in the priority order; full-time job, part-time job,
unemployed, retired, other). If both people have the same economic activity,
the FRP is identified as the elder of the two or, if they are the same
age, the first member of the couple on the form. |
Economic
Activity
Family
Lone
parent family
Cohabiting
couple family
Married couple
family |
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Family Status |
This provides
information on the family circumstances of a person in a household. |
Family
|
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Family
Type |
This classifies
families into different types, whether a lone parent family, a married
couple family or a cohabiting couple family. In some tables couple families
are classified by whether or not there are any step-children in the family.
|
Family
Cohabiting
couple family
Lone
parent family
Married
couple family
Step-family
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Floor level |
See Lowest floor level |
Lowest floor
level |
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Full-time
student |
A
full-time student is a person of any age who has indicated that he or
she is a schoolchild or student in full-time education.
Full-time
students and schoolchildren who are economically active are identified
separately in the economic activity tables. They are not included in the
other categories of economically active such as 'employees' or 'unemployed'.
In tables
on occupation and industry, where students are not identified separately,
they are included under the occupation or industry appropriate to their
main job.
In the National
Statistics Socio-economic Classification all full-time students are recorded
in the 'full-time students' category regardless of whether they are economically
active or not.
The economic
activity questions are only asked of people aged 16-74. |
Economically
Active
National
Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC)
Students
and Schoolchildren
Population
Base |
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Full-time
working |
Working
full-time is defined as working 31 hours or more a week. |
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Furnished
accommodation |
The
distinction between accommodation that is provided furnished and accommodation
that is provided unfurnished is applicable in Scotland only. It relates
to all households that are rented accommodation or live rent free. |
Tenure
|
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Gender |
See Sex |
Sex |
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General
Health |
A self-assessment
of a person's general health over the 12 months before the Census. |
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Health |
See General health |
General health
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Highest
Level of Qualification |
In England
and Wales, the highest level of qualification is derived from responses
to both the qualifications question and the professional qualification
question. For Scotland and Northern Ireland, it is based on the qualifications
question. As the levels are derived from different questions they are
not (or are only approximately) equivalent.
England
and Wales:
Level 1:
1+ 'O' level passes, 1+ CSE/GCSE any grades, NVQ level 1, Foundation GNVQ
Level 2:
5+ 'O' level passes, 5+ CSEs (grade 1). 5+ GCSEs (grades A-C), School
Certificate, 1+'A' levels/ AS levels, NVQ level 2, Intermediate GNVQ
Level 3:
2+ 'A' levels, 4+ AS levels, Higher School certificate, NVQ level 3, Advanced
GNVQ
Level 4/5:
First degree, Higher degree, NVQ levels 4 and 5, HNC, HND, Qualified Teacher
status, Qualified Medical Doctor, Qualified Dentist, Qualified Nurse,
Midwife, Health Visitor
Scotland:
Group 1:
'O' Grade, Standard Grade, Intermediate 1, Intermediate 2, City and Guilds
Craft, SVQ level 1 or 2 or equivalent
Group 2:
Higher Grade, CSYS, ONC, OND, City and Guilds Advanced Craft, RSA, Advanced
Diploma, SVQ level 3 or equivalent
Group 3:
HND, HNC, RSA Higher Diploma, SVQ level 4 or 5 or equivalent
Group 4:
First degree, Higher degree, Professional Qualification
Northern
Ireland:
Level 1:
GCSE (grades D-G), CSE (grades 2-5), 1-4 CSEs (grade 1), 1-4 GCSEs (grades
A-C), 1-4 'O' level passes, NVQ level 1, GNVQ Foundation or equivalents
Level 2:
5+ CSEs (grade 1), 5+ GCSEs (grades A-C), 5+ 'O' level passes, Senior
Certificate, 1 'A' level, 1-3 AS levels, Advanced Senior Certificate,
NVQ level 2, GNVQ Intermediate or equivalents
Level 3:
2+ 'A' levels, 4+ AS levels, NVQ level 3, GNVQ Advanced or equivalents
Level 4:
First degree, NVQ level 4, HNC, HND or equivalents
Level 5:
Higher degree, NVQ level 5 or equivalents |
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Holiday
accommodation |
See Second residence/holiday accommodation
|
Second residence/holiday
accommodation |
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Hours Worked
|
The
question on how many hours a week a person usually works in his or her
Main job is used to derive whether a person is working full-time (31 hours
or more a week) or part-time (30 hours or less per week). |
Full-time
working
Part-time
working
Main job
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Household
|
A household
comprises one person living alone, or a group of people (not necessarily
related) living at the same address with common housekeeping - that is,
sharing either a living room or sitting room or at least one meal a day. |
Communal
Establishment
Household
Space |
|
Household
Composition |
Households
consisting of one family and no other people are classified according
to the type of family and the number of dependent children. Other households
are classified by the number of dependent children or whether all student
or all pensioner.
An alternative
classification defines households by the age of the people in it. It takes
no account of the relationships between people. |
Family
One
family and no others
Dependent
Child
Pensioner
|
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Household
deprivation |
This
term is used in one univariate table (not available in Scotland). The
classification is not related to the DTLR Index of Multiple Deprivation
nor the NISRA Measures of Deprivation for Northern Ireland. It is one
of the Alternative Household Classifications resulting from an ESRC project
completed in 2001.
There are
four dimensions of household deprivation defined. A household is 'deprived'
in the following dimension(s) if:
Employment:
Any member of the household aged 16-74 who is not a full-time student
is either unemployed or permanently sick.
Education:
No member of the household aged 16 to pensionable age has at least 5 GCSEs
(grade A-C) or equivalent AND no member of the household aged 16-18 is
in full-time education. [NB. For Scotland the education level is at least
one Standard Grade or equivalent which is a lower level.]
Health and
disability: Any member of the household has general health 'not good'
in the year before Census or has a limiting long-term illness.
Housing:
The household's accommodation is either overcrowded (occupancy indicator
is -1 or less), OR is in a shared dwelling OR does not have sole use of
bath/shower and toilet OR has no central heating. |
General
Health
Occupancy
Rating |
|
Household
Reference Person |
The concept
of Household Reference Person (HRP) is new in 2001 output. It replaces
Head of Household used in 1991. For a person living alone, it follows
that this person is the HRP. If the household contains only one family
(with or without ungrouped individuals) the HRP is the same as the Family
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