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A history of census-taking in the UK

Duke-Williams, OW; (2017) A history of census-taking in the UK. In: Stillwell, J, (ed.) The Routledge Handbook of Census Resources, Methods and Applications Unlocking the UK 2011 Census. Routledge: London, UK. Green open access

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Abstract

A census is most easily seen by researchers as being a set of data about the population of a country, but is more broadly understood as being a workflow process of legal and practical planning, of data collection and of data editing and processing which finally results in a set of outputs being produced, be they printed volumes, analytical reports or sets of machine-readable data. This chapter provides some historical context for the 2011 Census and, in particular, considers how the questions which have been asked in censuses since 1801 have evolved.

Type: Book chapter
Title: A history of census-taking in the UK
ISBN: 1472475887
ISBN-13: 9781472475886
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.4324/9781315564777
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315564777
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Information Studies
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10024635
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