The 2021 Census, the pandemic
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:22 am
Oliver Duke-WilliamsIn part one of this two-part blog looking at the travel to work data from the 2021 Census, Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, the UK Data Service Director for Census, looks at some of the interesting findings in the data on journeys to work.
Background
Census agencies are now in the south korea rcs data process of releasing the results of the 2021 Census, and data on several themes have been released. One of the most interesting has been a set of univariate observations of the labour market and the journey to work. These are particularly interesting in the 2021 Census, as they refer to elements of everyday life that were particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the UK, we have three censuses – one conducted by ONS in England and Wales, one conducted by NISRA in Northern Ireland and one conducted by NRS in Scotland – these generally feature very similar question sets, and have been conducted on the same date. The census in Scotland was moved to 2022 due to the pandemic, but the censuses in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland were conducted in 2021. This has introduced difficulties in doing UK-wide analysis for all observations and, as we will discuss in part two of this blog, has some specific issues when it comes to journeys to work.
Background
Census agencies are now in the south korea rcs data process of releasing the results of the 2021 Census, and data on several themes have been released. One of the most interesting has been a set of univariate observations of the labour market and the journey to work. These are particularly interesting in the 2021 Census, as they refer to elements of everyday life that were particularly affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the UK, we have three censuses – one conducted by ONS in England and Wales, one conducted by NISRA in Northern Ireland and one conducted by NRS in Scotland – these generally feature very similar question sets, and have been conducted on the same date. The census in Scotland was moved to 2022 due to the pandemic, but the censuses in England and Wales and in Northern Ireland were conducted in 2021. This has introduced difficulties in doing UK-wide analysis for all observations and, as we will discuss in part two of this blog, has some specific issues when it comes to journeys to work.