|
2001 resident population |
See Population Base |
Population
Base |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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. |
|
|
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 |
|
Amenities
|
Amenities comprise central heating,
bath/shower and toilet. |
Central
Heating
Bath/shower
and toilet |
|
Area |
The area
in hectares on Census Day. |
Census Day
2001 |
|
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.
|
Place
of work
Place
of work or study
Day-time
population
Workplace
population
Migrant
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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.
|
Household
Space
Household
Amenities
|
|
Carer |
See provision of unpaid care |
Provision
of unpaid care |
|
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 |
|
Census Day
2001 |
29 April
2001 |
|
|
Census Night 1991 |
21-22 April
1991 |
|
|
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 |
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
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.
|
|
|
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 |
|
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
|
|
Concealed
family |
A concealed family is one that does not
include the Household Reference Person |
Family
Household
Reference Person |
|
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 |
|
Current
religion |
See Religion |
Religion
|
|
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 |
|
Density
(population) |
See Population density |
Population
density |
|
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). |
|
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
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 |
|
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).
|
Household
Space
Occupied
dwelling
Vacant dwelling
|
|
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 |
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
Establishment |
See Communal Establishment |
Communal Establishment
|
|
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
|
|
Ethnicity |
See Ethnic Group |
Ethnic Group
|
|
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
|
|
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 |
|
Family Status |
This provides
information on the family circumstances of a person in a household. |
Family
|
|
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
|
|
Floor level |
See Lowest floor level |
Lowest floor
level |
|
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 |
|
Full-time
working |
Working
full-time is defined as working 31 hours or more a week. |
|
|
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
|
|
Gender |
See Sex |
Sex |
|
General
Health |
A self-assessment
of a person's general health over the 12 months before the Census. |
|
|
Health |
See General health |
General health
|
|
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 |
|
|
Holiday
accommodation |
See Second residence/holiday accommodation
|
Second residence/holiday
accommodation |
|
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
|
|
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
|
|
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
Reference Person (FRP). If there is more than one family in the household,
the HRP is chosen from among the FRPs using the same criteria as for choosing
the FRP (economic activity, then age, then order on the form). If there
is no family, the HRP is chosen from the individuals using the same criteria.
In 1991, the Head of Household was taken as the first person on the form
unless that person was aged under 16 or was not usually resident in the
household. |
Family
Reference Person
Household
|
|
Household
Resident |
A household
resident is any person who usually lives at the address, or who has no
other usual address. For people with more than one address (e.g. Armed
Forces personnel, people who work away from home) the usual address is
where the person spends the majority of his/her time, unless they have
a spouse or partner at another address. In the latter instance, the usual
address is where the person's family resides. Students and schoolchildren
studying away from the family home are treated as resident at their term-time
address. |
Household
Population
Base
Students
and Schoolchildren |
|
Household
Size |
A household's size is the number of people
resident in the household. It does not include students and schoolchildren
living away from the household during term-time. |
Household
Population
Base
Students
and Schoolchildren |
|
Household
Space |
A
household space is the accommodation occupied by a single household or,
if unoccupied, available for a single household. |
Household
Accommodation
Type |
|
In employment
|
See Employed
|
Employed |
|
Industry
|
The industry
in which a person works is determined by the response to the question
asking for a description of the business of the person's employer (or
own business if self-employed). The responses are coded to a modified
version of the UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities
1992 - UK SIC (92) |
Main job
|
|
Inflow |
The inflow of people to an area is a count
of people who are resident in the area on Census day but whose usual address
one year before Census was outside the area. It may not be an exact count
of people moving into the area because it does not include people who
did not live within the area one year before Census but who had no usual
address. |
Migrant
Outflow
|
|
Intercensal
population change |
A column
in one of the Key Statistics tables, for England, Wales and Scotland,
expresses the increase or decrease in the resident population of the area
between 1991 and 2001 as a percentage of the 1991 population. Note that
the definition of resident population differs between 1991 and 2001 and
the 2001 figures have been adjusted by the One Number Census process to
correct for underenumeration so the percentage change is not exact. In
Northern Ireland population changes are reported through the Mid Year
Estimates. |
Population
Base
1991 resident
population |
|
Ireland
- part not specified |
In the Country
of Birth classification there is a separate code for 'Ireland part not
specified'. In table KS06 this category is included in 'Other EU countries'.
This means that summing the count of people born in Northern Ireland and
the people born in Republic of Ireland may not give an accurate total
of the people born in Ireland. |
Country of
Birth |
|
Knowledge
of Gaelic |
A person has knowledge of Gaelic if they
can do one or more of the following: Understand spoken Gaelic, Speak Gaelic,
Read Gaelic, Write Gaelic |
|
|
Knowledge of Irish |
A person has knowledge of Irish if they
can do one or more of the following: Understand spoken Irish , Speak Irish,
Read Irish, Write Irish |
|
|
Knowledge
of Welsh |
A person has knowledge of Welsh if they
can do one or more of the following: Understand spoken Welsh, Speak Welsh,
Read Welsh, Write Welsh |
|
|
Language
needs indicator |
This indicator is produced for use within
the Standard Spending Assessments for England and provides an approximate
indication for a person in a household that a language other than English
might be the first language spoken. A person either born outside the United
Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man and whose Household Reference
Person was born outside the Irish Republic, the USA or the 'Old Commonwealth'
(Australia, Canada and New Zealand) or who were born inside the United
Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man and whose Household Reference
Person was born outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands, the Isle
of Man, the Irish Republic, the USA or the 'Old Commonwealth'. |
Country
of Birth
Household
Reference Person |
|
Limiting
long-term Illness |
A
self assessment of whether or not a person has a limiting long-term illness,
health problem or disability which limits daily activities or the work
the person can do, including problems that are due to old age. |
|
|
Living
arrangements |
The living arrangements classification
combines the responses to the question on legal marital status and whether
people are, or are not, living as a couple. It applies only to people
in households. |
Cohabiting
Living
in a couple
Marital
status |
|
Living
in a couple |
Includes both living with a spouse and
cohabiting. |
Cohabiting
Living arrangements
|
|
Location
of rooms |
This is
applicable to household spaces in Northern Ireland only. It identifies
whether all the rooms in the household space are on one floor or more
than one floor. |
Household
Space |
|
Lone
parent family |
Usually,
a lone parent family is a father or mother with his or her child(ren)
where the parent does not have a spouse or partner in the household and
the child(ren) do not have a spouse, partner or child in the household.
It also includes a lone grandparent with his or her grandchild(ren) where
there are no children in the intervening generation in the household. |
Child
Family
Type
Lone parent
household |
|
Lone
parent household |
In most tables, the term 'lone parent
household' is used to describe a household that comprises a lone parent
family and no other person. In the alternative household type variable
used in one of the univariate tables a lone parent household is defined
as a household which contains one or more lone parent families but no
married or cohabiting couples. |
Lone
parent family
One family
and no others |
|
Long-term
illness |
See Limiting long-term illness |
Limiting long-term
illness |
|
Long-term
unemployed |
A person
is defined as being long-term unemployed at Census if the year they last
worked was 1999 or earlier. |
Unemployed
|
|
Lowest
floor level |
The lowest
floor of the living accommodation. It relates to all household spaces,
whether or not the space is occupied by a household. |
Household
Space |
|
Main
job |
The main
job is the job in which a person usually works the most hours. Questions
on employment relate to each person's main job. |
Economic Activity
|
|
Marital
status |
Legal marital
status as at Census day. |
Living arrangements
|
|
Married |
Married
is one of the categories within the Marital Status variable.
In the Living
Arrangements classification a person not living in a couple can be classified
married (or re-married) if they denote their marital status as married
(or re-married) but have no spouse or partner resident in the household. |
Marital
Status
Living Arrangements
|
|
Married
couple family |
A married
couple family consists of a husband and wife 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. A husband and wife with their grandchild(ren) where there
are no children in the intervening generation in the household are included. |
Family
Type
Married
couple household
Child
Step-family
|
|
Married
couple household |
In most
tables, the term 'married couple household' is used to describe a household
that comprises a married couple family and no other person. In the alternative
Household Type variable used in one of the univariate tables a married
couple household is defined as a household which contains one or more
married couples. |
Married
couple family
One family
and no others |
|
Mean
age |
Mean age is calculated by dividing the
sum of each person's age last birthday (i.e. age in whole years) by the
number of people. |
Age
Median age
|
|
Means
of travel to work |
Applicable in England, Wales and Northern
Ireland. The means of travel used for the longest part, by distance, of
the usual journey to work. |
Public transport
users |
|
Means
of travel to work or study |
Applicable in Scotland only. The means
of travel used for the longest part, by distance, of the usual journey
to main place of work or study (including school). |
Public
transport users |
|
Median
age |
The median age is the middle value when
all the ages are arranged in order from youngest to oldest, where 'age'
is age at last birthday (i.e. in whole years). |
Age
Mean age
|
|
Medical practitioners |
People with
occupation coded to SOC2000 code 2211. They are identified particularly
in the table showing professional qualifications by occupation. (Not applicable
in Scotland). |
|
|
Migrant
|
A migrant
is a person with a different address one year before the Census to that
on Census Day. The migrant status for children aged under one in households
is determined by the migrant status of their 'next of kin' (defined as
in order of preference, mother, father, sibling (with nearest age), other
related person, Household Reference Person). |
Household
resident
Household
Reference Person
Inflow
Outflow
|
|
Migrant
household |
See Wholly moving household |
Wholly moving
household |
|
Moving
group |
A Moving
group is a group of people within a household or communal establishment
who have moved together from the same usual address one year before Census
day. A person who moves by him or herself also constitutes a Moving group.
This is a new concept for 2001. |
Migrant
Moving group
Reference Person |
|
Moving
group Reference Person |
If there
is only one person in the Moving group, that person is the Moving group
Reference Person (MGRP). If the Moving group contains the Household Reference
Person (HRP), the MGRP is the HRP. If the HRP is not in the Moving group,
the MGRP is chosen from among any Family Reference Persons (FRPs) using
the same criteria as for choosing the FRP (economic activity, then age,
then order on the form). If no FRP, the MGRP is chosen from among any
people in generation 1 of a family using the same criteria. If there is
no person in generation 1 of a family, the MGRP is chosen from all the
people in the Moving group using the same criteria. |
Moving
group
Migrant
Family
Reference Person
Household
Reference Person |
|
National Statistics
Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) |
The National
Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) has been introduced
by the Government to replace Social Class based on Occupation (also known
as the Registrar General's Social Class) and Socio-Economic Groups (SEG).
For more information see the National Statistics website at www.statistics.gov.uk/nsbase/methods_quality/ns_sec
|
Economic
Activity
Full-time
student |
|
Night-time
population |
The night-time
population of an area is defined as all people who are resident in the
area. |
Day-time
Population
Population
Base |
|
NS-SeC not
classifiable for other reasons |
In
the National Statistics - Socio-economic Classification, category L17
is 'not classifiable for other reasons'. This will usually include people
who have not been asked questions on economic activity, such as the elderly.
In Census tables that relate only to the
16-74 age groups the category 'not classifiable for other reasons' will
include only people whose occupation has not been coded. People aged 65
to 74 not working in the week before the Census (apart from the long term
unemployed and people who have never worked who are in separate categories)
and people aged 16 to 64 who last worked before 1996 (again excluding
the long term unemployed and people who have never worked). In Northern
Ireland, occupation was coded for all respondents, aged 16-74, who were
currently working or had ever worked. Therefore, this category is empty,
on these tables, and has been removed.
Note that the category L16 'occupation
not stated or inadequately described' is not included in census tables
because missing answers are imputed. |
National
Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC)
Long term
unemployed |
|
Number or
rooms |
See Rooms |
Rooms
|
|
Nurse, midwife,
health visitor |
People with
occupation coded to SOC2000 code 3211 or 3212. They are identified particularly
in the table showing professional qualifications by occupation. (Not
applicable in Scotland). |
|
|
Occupancy
rating |
This
provides a measure of under occupancy and over crowding. It relates the
actual number of rooms to the number of rooms 'required' by the members
of the household (based on the relationships between them and their ages).
The room requirement is calculated as follows:
- a one person household is assumed to
require three rooms (two common rooms and a bedroom)
- where there are two or more residents
it is assumed that they require a minimum of two common rooms plus one
bedroom for:
i. each couple (as determined by the relationship
question)
ii. each lone parent
iii. any other person aged 16 or over
iii. each pair aged 10 to 15 of the same
sex
iv. each pair formed from a remaining
person aged 10 to 15 with a child aged under 10 of the same sex
v. each pair of children aged under 10
remaining
vi. each remaining person (either aged
10 to 15 or under 10). |
Household
Rooms
|
|
Occupation
|
A person's
occupation is coded from the response to the question asking for the full
title of the main job and the description of what is done in that job.
It is coded to the 2000 edition of the Standard Occupational Classification
(SOC). |
Main
job
Industry
|
|
Occupied
dwelling |
A dwelling
is defined as occupied if at least one of the household spaces within
it (or the single household space, if the dwelling is unshared) is occupied. |
Dwelling
Occupied
household space
Vacant
dwelling
Second
residence/holiday accommodation |
|
Occupied household
space |
A household
space is defined as occupied if it has one or more people resident in
it. The count of occupied household spaces in an area is the same as the
count of households. |
Household
Space
Household
|
|
One
family and no others |
A household
comprises one family and no others if there is only one family in the
household and there are no non-family people (ungrouped individuals).
|
Family
Cohabiting
couple household
Lone
parent household
Married
couple household |
|
Other EU
countries |
These
are the countries in the European Union as defined on Census day apart
from the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. They are Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Luxembourg,
Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. In the key statistics table the
category also includes Ireland, part not specified, United Kingdom, part
not specified, Channel Islands and the Isle of Man |
Country of
Birth |
|
Other health
associate professionals and therapists |
People with occupation coded to
SOC2000 codes 3213-3218 and 3221-3229. They are identified particularly
in the table showing professional qualifications by occupation. (Not applicable
in Scotland). |
|
|
Other
Social rented |
Comprises
rented from Registered Social Landlord, Housing Association, Housing Co-operative
, Charitable Trust and non-profit housing company. |
Tenure
Social rented
|
|
Outflow |
The outflow
of people from an area is a count of people who were resident in the area
one year before the Census but whose usual address on Census day is outside
the area. It may not be a complete count of people moving out of the area
because it does not include people who have moved from the area to outside
the UK. |
Inflow
Migrant
|
|
Owned |
This
comprises accommodation that is either owned outright, owned with a mortgage
or loan, or shared ownership (paying part rent and part mortgage). |
Tenure
|
|
Owner occupied accommodation
|
See Owned |
Owned
|
|
Part-time
working |
Working
part-time is defined as working 30 hours or less a week |
Hours
Worked |
|
Partly-moving
household |
A household
is described as partly moving if one or more members of the household
is a migrant but not all members of the household have moved from the
same usual address. |
Migrant
Moving
group
Household
|
|
Pensioner |
This term
is used in some tables as a shorthand for 'person of pensionable age'.
Pensionable age is 65 and over for males and 60 and over for females. |
|
|
Permanently
sick/disabled |
This is a sub-category of 'economically
inactive'. There is no direct connection with limiting long-term illness
|
Economically
inactive
Limiting Long-term
illness |
|
Person of
pensionable age |
See Pensioner |
Pensioner
|
|
Persons
Sleeping Rough |
Persons
Sleeping Rough are those identified as 'absolutely homeless', that is
people sleeping, or bedded down, in the open air (such as on the streets,
or in doorways, parks or bus shelters); people in buildings or other places
not designed for habitation. They are included in output as residents
in communal establishments (with residents of hostels for the homeless). |
|
|
Place
of work |
The place
where a person works in their main job. The depot address for people who
report to a depot. Applicable in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
Distance
travelled to work
Means of travel
to work |
|
Place
of work or study |
The place
a person travels to for their main job or course of study (including school).
The depot address for people who report to a depot. Applicable in Scotland
only. |
Distance
travelled to work or study
Means
of travel to work or study |
|
Population
Base |
The 2001
Census has been conducted on a resident basis. This means the statistics
relate to where people usually live, as opposed to where they are on Census
night. Students and schoolchildren studying away from the family home
are counted as resident at their term-time address. As in 1981 and 1991,
residents absent from home on Census night were required to be included
on the Census form at their usual/resident address. Wholly absent households
were legally required to complete a Census form on their return. No information
is provided on people present, but not usually resident (Persons Present
Population Base 1991).
|
Communal
Establishment Resident
Household
resident
Students
and Schoolchildren
Intercensal
population change
1991 resident
population |
|
Population
density |
Number of residents per hectare |
Population
Base
Area |
|
Private
rented |
Accommodation
that is rented from a private landlord or letting agency, employer of
a household member, relative or friend of a household member, or other
non Social rented. |
Social
rented
Tenure
|
|
Provision
of unpaid care |
A
person is a provider of unpaid care if he or she gives any help or support
to family members, friends, neighbours or others because of long-term
physical or mental health or disability, or problems related to old age.
Note that there is no specific reference to whether this care is provided
within the household or outside the household. Therefore, no explicit
link can be created to infer that an individual providing care is providing
it to a person within the household who has poor general health, or a
limiting long-term illness, disability or health problem. |
|
|
Public
transport users |
People whose
means of travel used for the longest part, by distance, of the usual journey
to work or study is underground, metro, light rail, tram, train, bus,
minibus or coach. |
Means
of travel to work
Means of travel
to work or study |
|
Qualifications
- higher level |
England
and Wales: Level 4/5
Scotland:
Groups 3 and 4
Northern
Ireland: Levels 4 and 5 |
Highest Level
of Qualification |
|
Qualifications
- lower level |
England
and Wales: Levels 1, 2 and 3
Scotland:
Groups 1 and 2
Northern
Ireland: Levels 1,2 and 3 |
Highest Level
of Qualification |
|
Religion |
In England
and Wales this relates to current religion.
In Scotland
there is an additional question asking for the religion the person was
brought up in.
In Northern
Ireland, this also relates to current religion. The religion question
is in several parts. People are asked if they regard themselves as belonging
to any particular religion. Those people who regard themselves as belonging
to a religion are asked to provide an answer as to which religion, religious
denomination or body they belong to.
Those people
who do not regard themselves as belonging to any particular religion are
classified as belonging to 'No religion'. A supplementary question was
included asking those people who do not regard themselves as belonging
to any particular religion to answer a question on which religion, religious
denomination or body they were brought up in. This information is only
used in the derivation of Community Background, and is not included in
the Religion variable.
Missing answers for the Religion variable
are not imputed so the classifications include a 'not stated' category.
|
Community
Background |
|
Religion
of upbringing |
See Religion |
Religion |
|
Resident
staff and family |
In many
tables residents of communal establishments whose position in the establishment
is given as 'staff or owner' or 'relative of staff or owner' are shown
separately or excluded from the table |
Communal Establishment
Resident |
|
Rooms |
The count
of the number of rooms in a household's accommodation does not include
bathrooms, toilets, halls or landings, or rooms that can only be used
for storage. All other rooms, for example, kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms,
utility rooms and studies are counted. If two rooms have been converted
into one they are counted as one room. Rooms shared between a number of
households, for example a shared kitchen, are not counted. The count is
not available for unoccupied household spaces. |
Household
Household
Space |
|
Same-sex couples
|
Couples of the same sex are included in
cohabiting couple families.
A separate count is given in table UV49.
|
Cohabiting
couple family
Cohabiting |
|
Schoolchild |
See Students and schoolchildren |
Students and
schoolchildren |
|
Second
residence/ holiday accommodation |
The distinction
between second residence/ holiday accommodation and vacant accommodation
for unoccupied household spaces is based on information provided by the
enumerator. The enumerator was not asked to differentiate between second
homes and holiday homes so they cannot be distinguished in output. Households
that returned a form but which prove to be all visitor households are
classified as second/ holiday homes in output.
An unoccupied
dwelling is classified as second/holiday home if at least one of the household
spaces within it (or the single household space if the dwelling is unshared)
is a second/holiday home. |
Vacant
household space
Dwelling |
|
Self-employed
|
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 Census or, if not
working in the week before Census, their last main job. |
Main job
Employee
|
|
Sex
|
Classification of person to either male
or female |
|
|
Shared dwelling |
See Dwelling |
Dwelling
|
|
Social Grade,
Approximated |
Social Grade
is the socio-economic classification used by the Market Research and Marketing
Industries. Although it is not possible to allocate Social Grade precisely
from information collected in the Census, the Market Research Society
has developed a method for using Census information to provide a good
approximation of Social Grade. Most output by Social Grade is for people
aged 16 and over in households. They are classified by the Social Grade
of their Household Reference Person. |
Economic
Activity
National
Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC)
Household
Reference Person |
|
Social
rented |
Accommodation
that is rented from a council (Local Authority, Scottish Homes, Northern
Ireland Housing Executive) or a Housing Association, Housing Co-operative,
Charitable Trust, Non-profit housing company or Registered Social Landlord. |
Private
rented
Tenure
Other
Social rented |
|
Step-family |
A
step-family is a married couple family or a cohabiting couple family where
there is at least one child who belongs to only one member of the married
or cohabiting couple. |
Married
couple family
Cohabiting
couple family |
|
Students and
Schoolchildren |
Students
and schoolchildren in full-time education studying away from the family
home are fully enumerated as resident at their term-time address. Basic
demographic information only (name, sex, age, marital status and relationship)
is collected at their 'home' or 'vacation' address. This information will
not allow the derivation of a separate Population Base. Apart from one
or two tables where these students and schoolchildren are specifically
identified, for all main output they will not be counted at their vacation
address. The information on families, household size and Household Composition
for their vacation address will not include them. They are not included
in the 'all person' count for their vacation address. The person variables,
apart from age, sex, marital status and relationship, will be coded 'not
applicable'. In the 1991 Census, students and schoolchildren were treated
as resident at their vacation address.
'Student'
is also a category of Economically Inactive. This does not necessarily
mean in full-time education and excludes students who were working or
in some other way were economically active. |
Economically
Inactive
Full-time
student
Students
away from home
|
|
Students
away from home |
Students
and schoolchildren in full-time education studying away from the family
home are treated as resident at their term-time address. Where the term
'students away from home' is used they are being referred to at their
'home' or 'vacation' address. |
Students and
Schoolchildren |
|
Tenure |
The tenure
of a household is derived from the response to the question asking whether
the household owns or rents its accommodation and, if rented, from the
response to the question asking who is the landlord. |
Owned
Private
rented
Social
rented
Other Social
rented |
|
Travel to
work |
See Means
of travel to work. Applicable in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. |
Means of travel
to work |
|
Travel to
work or study |
See Means of travel to work or study.
Applicable in Scotland only |
Means of travel
to work or study |
|
Unemployed |
A person
is defined as unemployed if he or she is not in employment, is available
to start work in the next 2 weeks and has either looked for work in the
last 4 weeks or is waiting to start a new job. This is consistent with
the International Labour Office (ILO) standard classification. |
Economic
Activity
Economically
Active
Long term
unemployed |
|
Unfurnished
accommodation |
See Furnished accommodation |
Furnished
accommodation |
|
Unshared dwelling |
See dwelling |
Dwelling |
|
Vacant
dwelling |
A dwelling
is defined as vacant if all the household spaces within it (or the single
household space, if the dwelling is unshared) are vacant. |
Dwelling
Occupied
dwelling
Second
residence/holiday accommodation |
|
Vacant
household space
|
The distinction
between second residence/ holiday accommodation and vacant accommodation
for unoccupied household spaces is based on information provided by the
enumerator. Household spaces which are identified by the enumerator as
absents, refusals or non-returns but which do not subsequently have a
household imputed by the One Number Census process are classified as vacant
in output. |
Second residence/holiday
accommodation |
|
Visitor |
Visitors
are people who are not usually resident at an address. The person filling
in the Census form was asked to list basic information for visitors (name
and address) to help while completing the form. However, this listing
was not compulsory and does not provide usable information. There is no
output on visitors. |
Population
Base |
|
Welsh
Identity |
People
identifying themselves as Welsh are those who have written 'Welsh' or
'Cymraeg' or a similar response in one or more of the write-in boxes in
the ethnic group question in England or Wales. If they have written it
in the White section of the question they are counted as 'British' in
the standard classification. However, they could be in any other category
depending what boxes have been ticked and where they have written in.
For example a person who has ticked Chinese and written in ‘Welsh’ is
classified as Chinese in the standard classification but will be recognised
as 'identifying themselves as Welsh' where appropriate. |
Ethnic Group
|
|
Wholly
Moving Household |
A household is described as wholly moving
if all members of the household are migrants and have moved from the same
address. |
Migrant
Moving
group
Partly
moving household
Household |
|
Working
age |
Working
age is defined as 16 to 64 for males and 16 to 59 for females. |
|
|
Workplace
population |
Applicable
in England, Wales and Northern Ireland only. The workplace population
is defined as the people aged 16 to 74 who are in employment and whose
usual place of work is in the area. People with no fixed place of work
are treated the same as people who work mainly at or from home and are
counted as working in their area of residence. |
Employed
Daytime population
|
