Ludi Simpson – Census practice – projects and publications:

 

Paper: Enhancing the population census: a time series for sub-national areas with age, sex, and ethnic group dimensions in England and Wales, 1991-2001, with Albert Sabater, 2009, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 35(9): 1461-1478.

Data: A time series for sub-national areas with age, sex, and ethnic group dimensions in England and Wales, 1991-2001 (Wards online, Output Areas and other areas available on request)

Fixing the population: from census to population estimate
Summary of adjustments made, and assessment of their robustness. Environment and Planning A, 2007, vol 35 pp.1045-1057

Are the census outputs fit for purpose?

Paper to ONS/RSS conference November 2003. Key issues: differential undercount; impact of rounding small numbers before publication; the quality of census-based population estimates.

Review of the 2001 One Number Census

For the Local Government Association, September 2003

Reflections on the 2001 Census: a view from the outside.

LARIA conference plenary, March 2002.

Impact of rounding and adjustment on 2001 census data, May 2002.

Contribution to consultation May 2002

Measures to prevent disclosure of confidential information in outputs from the 2001 Census. Letter to Len Cook 9th April 2002

Census fieldwork – the bedrock for a decade of social analysis

Reviews interviews with fieldworkers of the 2001 Census. Environment and Planning A, 2008, Vol. 40(9), pp.2132-48.

Quantifying the impact of census undercount

Population, social and migration data from the 1991 census, with allowance for undercount. This project in the 1990s has now been enhanced by revised estimates after the 2001 Census: see the 1991-2001 time series entries above.