Data from the 2011 Census is now available from the Office of National Statistics! And it's incredibly dull, and it's only about England & Wales. Northern Ireland's and Scotland's data will come later, apparently. Can't wait. Breath bated...
A spokesperson from ONS was delighted to tell us all that "nineteen out of twenty" people completed the census. So that's a margin for error of 5.26%, then (depending upon how you approach the reciprocal fraction).
It's important to understand (or just guess) which people are within the 5.26% of the population who, basically, either couldn't be arsed to complete the form or felt that to do so might just have alerted the "authorities" to their existence. It'll be safe for the Daily Mail to assume that the 5.26% were (and probably still are) illegal immigrants and scumbags, whose refusal to complete the census will have had a massive impact on house prices and will have given everyone cancer. And they might even be right (apart from the house prices and cancer bits).
So the population of England and Wales increased by over three millions. This is, apparently, the largest increase - ever! But, before the government asks Bill and Melinda Gates to turn her attention to the UK, rather than Africa, for education on contraception, it has to be acknowledged that the increase is more to do with people not dying fast enough as opposed to too many people being born. Are babies 'people'? They are in ONS terms but I've never really heard anyone refer to babies as anything other than 'babies'; very rarely as 'people'. Perhaps the ONS is right.
There were 56,075,900 people that were prepared to declare themselves as being there at the time of last year's census. It's not clear from the data (OK, it might have been if I could've been bothered to read all the notes) whether this figure is an extrapolation from the returns, but if it isn't, then the number would increase by 2.95 million, which is just short of the declared population of Wales. Does that prove something? Probably not. These 56 million people are distributed within 23.4 million properties...or "households" as the census describes them...so this means that there are an average of 2.4 people in each of them. The actual statistic states that there were 23,366,000 Households with at least one usual resident. Amazingly, there does not appear to be any statistic that informs us of the number of households with at least one unusual resident. This is what we all really want to know. There are twenty households in the street where I live and there are at least three unusual residents and one really odd one. I know it might not be statistically significant, but that's an error of almost 8% on the 'usual' index, so that makes a complete mockery of the census already.
There were 195,000 people that were "non-UK residents" (scumbag-asylum-seekers, them, for Daily Express readers). These people qualify as NURs (or SASs) by reporting their intentions to remain in the UK for between three and twelve months. As the 2011 Census was gathered over a year ago, then I can assume that they've all gone home, so I don't see what all the fuss is about! Curiously, there were no NURs aged over sixty-five in Wales last year.
When the remaining data is published, we'll begin to learn more interesting stuff, like what proportion the population have decided to declare that they have an allegiance to some weird, cult religion like "Jedi", or the "Church of England".
In the 1950s, after the 1951 Census, the government publishing arm, HMSO, produced a statistical booklet based on the Census data. It was called "The Population of Britain - Broken Down by Age and Sex". It's a shame that the ONS don't publish their data with similarly hilarious titles; just to lighten the mood. A bit like the Think Tank, Demos, whose recent report into the issues around illegal drugs was entitled, "Taking Drugs Seriously" (Duh! Like we recreational users aren't serious?) The ONS has hundreds of opportunities to make us laugh. The follwoing publications and data sets could be re-titled:
House Price Index: Monthly Tables = The Mail on Sunday - We Knew They Were Right!
INAC01: Economic Inactivity by Reason = How Philosophy Creates Unemployment
EMP15: Job Related Training Received by Employees = G4S Made-up Shit
Division 19: Manufacture of Coke Products = The Best Ways to Cut Crack; Government Advice
Etc...
A spokesperson from ONS was delighted to tell us all that "nineteen out of twenty" people completed the census. So that's a margin for error of 5.26%, then (depending upon how you approach the reciprocal fraction).
It's important to understand (or just guess) which people are within the 5.26% of the population who, basically, either couldn't be arsed to complete the form or felt that to do so might just have alerted the "authorities" to their existence. It'll be safe for the Daily Mail to assume that the 5.26% were (and probably still are) illegal immigrants and scumbags, whose refusal to complete the census will have had a massive impact on house prices and will have given everyone cancer. And they might even be right (apart from the house prices and cancer bits).
So the population of England and Wales increased by over three millions. This is, apparently, the largest increase - ever! But, before the government asks Bill and Melinda Gates to turn her attention to the UK, rather than Africa, for education on contraception, it has to be acknowledged that the increase is more to do with people not dying fast enough as opposed to too many people being born. Are babies 'people'? They are in ONS terms but I've never really heard anyone refer to babies as anything other than 'babies'; very rarely as 'people'. Perhaps the ONS is right.
| Bill and Melinda Gates acknowledge their failure to prevent Africans from having more children |
There were 195,000 people that were "non-UK residents" (scumbag-asylum-seekers, them, for Daily Express readers). These people qualify as NURs (or SASs) by reporting their intentions to remain in the UK for between three and twelve months. As the 2011 Census was gathered over a year ago, then I can assume that they've all gone home, so I don't see what all the fuss is about! Curiously, there were no NURs aged over sixty-five in Wales last year.
Daily Express avoids hyperbole...a bit |
In the 1950s, after the 1951 Census, the government publishing arm, HMSO, produced a statistical booklet based on the Census data. It was called "The Population of Britain - Broken Down by Age and Sex". It's a shame that the ONS don't publish their data with similarly hilarious titles; just to lighten the mood. A bit like the Think Tank, Demos, whose recent report into the issues around illegal drugs was entitled, "Taking Drugs Seriously" (Duh! Like we recreational users aren't serious?) The ONS has hundreds of opportunities to make us laugh. The follwoing publications and data sets could be re-titled:
House Price Index: Monthly Tables = The Mail on Sunday - We Knew They Were Right!
INAC01: Economic Inactivity by Reason = How Philosophy Creates Unemployment
EMP15: Job Related Training Received by Employees = G4S Made-up Shit
Division 19: Manufacture of Coke Products = The Best Ways to Cut Crack; Government Advice
Etc...
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