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England and Wales

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Persons

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Age,Living arrangements

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About this dataset

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify the Household Reference Persons aged 16 years and over in England and Wales by living arrangements and by age. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Protecting personal data

Sometimes we need to make changes to data if it is possible to identify individuals. This is known as statistical disclosure control. In Census 2021, we:

  • Swapped records (targeted record swapping), for example, if a household was likely to be identified in datasets because it has unusual characteristics, we swapped the record with a similar one from a nearby small area. Very unusual households could be swapped with one in a nearby local authority.
  • Added small changes to some counts (cell key perturbation), for example, we might change a count of four to a three or a five. This might make small differences between tables depending on how the data are broken down when we applied perturbation.

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Living arrangements (12 categories)

Description: The "living arrangements" classification combines responses to the question on marital and civil partnership status with information about whether or not a person is living in a couple. This topic is only applicable to people in households. Living arrangements differs from marital and civil partnership status because cohabiting takes priority over other categories. For example, if a person is divorced and cohabiting, then in results for living arrangements they are classified as cohabiting.

Comparability with 2011: Broadly comparable. This is derived from the legal partnership status derived variable. We have included new categories to reflect that people can now marry someone of the same-sex and people of the opposite-sex can be in a civil partnership. In the 2011 Census people who were married or separated were grouped in one category, in Census 2021 it has been split into two categories.

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Age (6 categories)

Description: A person's age on Census Day, 21 March 2021 in England and Wales.

Quality information: Estimates for single year of age between ages 90 and 100+ are less reliable than other ages. Estimation and adjustment at these ages was based on the age range 90+ rather than five-year age bands.

Comparability with 2011: Highly comparable

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