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Bringing the Missing Million Home: Correcting the 1991 Small Area Statistics for Undercount

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  • Richard Mitchell

    (Research Unit in Health, Behaviour and Change, Department of Community Health Sciences, University of Edinburgh Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, Scotland)

  • Danny Dorling

    (School of Geography, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, England)

  • David Martin

    (Department of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England)

  • Ludi Simpson

    (Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, England)

Abstract

The 1991 UK Decennial Census missed about 1.2 million people. These missing individuals present a serious challenge to any census user interested in measuring intercensal change, particularly amongst the most marginalised groups in society who were prominent amongst the missing population. Recently, a web-based system for accessing census data from the 1971, 1981, and 1991 censuses was launched ( www.census.ac.uk/cdu/lct ). The ‘LCT’ package also provides access to a set of 1991 small area statistics (SAS) which have been corrected to compensate for the missing million. The authors explain the methods used for adjusting the SAS counts, provide examples of the differences between analysis with the adjusted and unadjusted data, and recommend the use of the new data set to all those interested in intercensal change.

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  • Richard Mitchell & Danny Dorling & David Martin & Ludi Simpson, 2002. "Bringing the Missing Million Home: Correcting the 1991 Small Area Statistics for Undercount," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 34(6), pages 1021-1035, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:34:y:2002:i:6:p:1021-1035
    DOI: 10.1068/a34161
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