Measuring Citizenship in the UK 2011 Census in England and Wales Pete Stokes 2011 Census Statistical Design Manager Office for National Statistics.

Measuring Citizenship in the UK2011 Census in England and Wales

Pete Stokes

2011 Census Statistical Design Manager

Office for National Statistics

Summary

• Background and challenges

• What we collected

• How we derive Citizenship

• Results

Background

• Citizenship not collected in any UK Census

• Few requests from users for these data• Information on Country of birth used instead

• ONS now required to deliver these data to Eurostat

• Required to baseline ONS Migration statistics

Challenges

• The UK is four countries AND one country

• Testing found that respondents did not understand the difference between terms• i.e. Citizenship, Nationality and National identity

• Large proportion of population refused to answer a question where “United Kingdom” was only relevant response option• Insisted that they were English, Welsh etc

Data Collected

• Question on Passports held asked instead• Can be used as a proxy for citizenship

• Can analyse with Country of birth to derive more accurately

Citizenship

• Derived using information on Passports held and Country of birth

Results

• Analysis shows why data on passports are required to supplement Country of birth

Country of Birth

Population (Thousands)

UK passport(%)

Non-UK passport (%)

India 694 55.1 44.9

Poland 579 4.9 95.1

Pakistan 482 68.8 31.2

Ireland 407 24.0 76.0

Germany 274 56.8 43.2

Results

Questions?

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