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England and Wales
Units
Persons
Keywords
Ethnic Group, Usual Resident
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Ethnic Group
This table provides information about the ethnic group of the usual resident population of England and Wales as at census day, 27 March 2011.
Statistical Disclosure Control
In order to protect against disclosure of personal information from the 2011 Census, there has been swapping of records in the Census database between different geographic areas, and so some counts will be affected. In the main, the greatest effects will be at the lowest geographies, since the record swapping is targeted towards those households with unusual characteristics in small areas.
More details on the ONS Census disclosure control strategy may be found on the http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/census/2011/census-data/2011-census-prospectus/new-developments-for-2011-census-results/statistical-disclosure-control/index.html[Statistical Disclosure Control] page on the ONS web site.
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Rural Urban (13 categories)
This classification can only be used with the following geographies:
- Country
- Region
- Local Authority: District / Unitary
- Local Authority: County / Unitary
This classification allows summary outputs to be produced by rural-urban type at local authority, region and country level (it will not work with other geography types).
The outputs are based on a rural-urban classification of output areas. The 2011 classification is a revised version of the one created after the 2001 Census with additional detail in the urban domain.
Output areas are treated as urban if they were allocated to a 2011 built-up area with a population of 10,000 or more people. The urban domain is sub-divided into three broad morphological types based on the predominant settlement component. As with the previous version of the classification, the remaining rural output areas are grouped into three broad morphological types based on the predominant settlement component.
The classification also categorises output areas based on context - i.e. whether the wider surrounding area of a given output area is sparsely populated or less sparsely populated.
For more details see the https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/methodology/geography/geographicalproducts/ruralurbanclassifications/2011ruralurbanclassification/ruralurbanclassification2011userguide.zip[Rural-Urban Classification 2011 User Guide] (1.5 MB zip).
Read more...Ethnic Group (24 categories)
Ethnic group classifies people according to their own perceived ethnic group and cultural background.
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