Editorial: Coverage of the Great Britain Census of Population and Housing
- 1 May 1994
- journal article
- editorial
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society
- Vol. 157 (3) , 313-316
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-985x.1994.tb00581.x
Abstract
The extent of the undercount in the 1991 U.K. census and its consequences are described. The author notes that "the 1.2 million non-response, the difference between the published census figure and the final population estimate, is concentrated among young adults aged 20-34 years, particularly males, but includes significant numbers of young children and of very elderly people (80 years old and older)." Ways to reduce the level of non-response in future censuses are discussed.Keywords
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- Populations and Selection: Limitations of StatisticsJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 1993