Notes

A communal establishment is defined as an establishment providing managed residential accommodation. Managed means full-time or part-time supervision of the accommodation. See Census 2001 Definitions Volume Section 3.6 for more details: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pdfs/class_sections1_3.pdf#page=5 Comparisons with staff profiles from 1991 Census (eg. rates of limiting long-term illness) as well as the implausibility of their age distribution in 2001 indicated that some residents had been mis-allocated to staff category. This problem was mainly confined to Medical and Care (M&C) establishments (hospitals, nursing homes etc). The most plausible reason for the error is that when individual forms were filled by staff on behalf of residents (eg. those too ill/frail), the question on 'your position in the establishment' may have been misinterpreted such that staff ticked 'staff' (i.e themselves) rather than 'resident' - there was no tick box for proxy respondent. The impact of this is that numbers of communal establishment (CE) residents are underestimated, particularly in older ages (75+). ONS are currently looking at ways at estimating the scale of the underestimation. Initial analysis suggest that it is possible that a significant proportion of those classified as staff in M&C establishments in England & Wales were residents. Our advice in the interim is that numbers of staff and residents in CE are combined for reporting and analysis purposes. For example, this results in numbers of residents in M&C in E&W increasing from 397,964 to 448,576 (or from 0.8% to 0.9% of the total E&W population). Where this is not possible, at a minimum you should exclude those coded as staff who are economically inactive or outside normal working age (-15, 75+)

 pospuk (position in establishment) 1 Staff or Owner 2 Relative of Staff or owner 3 Other X No Code required (private persons only) ceststat = when pospuk = "3" then ceststat = "1" when pospuk = "1" or "2" then ceststat = "2"