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UK Definitions Volume

On 8 July 2004 the UK Census Offices published the report Census 2001: Definitions which provides explanatory information to accompany the results from the censuses held in 2001.

The Report includes:

definitions of terms used in the census output;
notes comparing results between different parts of the UK;
changes from the 1991 censuses; and
full lists of statistical tables in the main output programme

Information is provided in a single comprehensive volume to assist the reader in understanding and using the 2001 Census results.

Copies are available from The Stationery Office (TSO) or can be downloaded from this website as an Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (PDF) file.

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Census 2001: Definitions - Introduction, Census methodology and processes, Population base, Comparability with the 1991 Census, Glossary (369 KB)

Census 2001: Definitions - Output classifications part 1 (1.7 MB)

Census 2001: Definitions - Output classifications part 2 (1.4 MB)

Census 2001: Definitions - Filters, Output tables (1.0 MB)

Census 2001: Definitions - Maps (2.0 MB)

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