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Census 2021
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Area
| England and Wales
|
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Registrar
| Professor Sir Ian Diamond
(as National Statistician)
[1]
[2]
|
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Census day(s)
| 21 March 2021
|
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Issuing organisation
| ONS
|
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Data supplier
| Leidos Innovations
|
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Rehearsal
| September ? December 2019.
|
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Rehearsal Areas
| Carlisle, Ceredigion, Hackney, Tower Hamlets
|
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Census forms
| Household
[1]
[2]
and others
|
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On 21 March 2021, the censuses of
England and Wales
and of
Northern Ireland
took place. The census of
Scotland
is planned to take place in 2022. Censuses have been done in the United Kingdom every 10 years since 1841. They are now run by the
Office for National Statistics
.
The general style of the questionnaire is similar to that of the
2011 census
, although there are some new questions for 2021:
- A question asking if people have served in the armed forces.
[3]
- Voluntary question for 16 and over about sexual orientation.
[3]
- Voluntary question for 16 and over about whether people feel they are the sex which was on their birth certificate; this is in addition to the compulsory question about their sex.
[4]
Most of it was done
online
, the first time this has happened.
[5]
In Scotland, the
Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2019
makes provisions for voluntary questions about
transgender status
and
sexual orientation
to be asked.
[6]
The
Census (Return Particulars and Removal of Penalties) Act 2019
makes the same provision for England and Wales. The sexual orientation question will also be asked in Northern Ireland.
[7]
[8]
On 17 March 2021, the ONS withdrew from the High Court proceedings, conceding that "what is your sex" refers to sex as recognised by the law, and not
gender identity
.
[9]