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As the follow-up teams near completion of their activities, we thought it would be useful to have an overview of what happens now.
- Census field officers stop visiting non-responders on Monday 3 May
- CEMs and CAs stop proactive engagement activities on Monday 3 May
- Census Support Centres (CSCs) will close over the coming days
- The Census Coverage Survey (CCS) begins on 4 May
- The Contact Centre and language line will remain open to support the CCS
- The electronic questionnaire remains open for a couple of weeks - mainly to capture students returning to university
- Advertising aimed at students will also continue
- The non-compliance process begins when the collection period ends
Thanks for your support in promoting the census. Please stop publicising Census 2021 by 3 May
The CCS is a short, separate survey that takes place between 4 - 28 May. It will ask similar questions to the census, just fewer of them. We’ll ask a sample of addresses in selected postcodes across England and Wales to take part. It is not mandatory.
We use the CCS information, in conjunction with the census data, to produce a consistent set of results, fully adjusted for under (and over) coverage.
A CCS officer will contact the selected household and interviews will take place on the doorstep or by telephone. They will not be crossing the threshold at any point. Just like our census field officers, the CCS interviewer will carry an ID card and will follow the government's safety guidelines about the coronavirus (COVID-19).
You can find out more about the CCS on our website.
When the collection period ends, the non-compliance process will start. This will involve dedicated field teams engaging with anyone who has not taken part in the census. Their priority is to encourage as many further returns as possible. However, as doing the census is a legal requirement, the next stage of non-compliance involves more formal proceedings for those who continue to refuse.
Thanks to all those authorities who responded to our invitation in the LA Partnership Plan (LAPP) to tell us about particular aspects of their local populations that we need to take into account in our quality assurance of the census data. We are now looking to extend the scope for authorities to be involved in the quality assurance by giving you or a colleague the opportunity of a session with our QA team to see and comment on early and provisional data for your area. This means that any quality issues you identify can be investigated and addressed before the results are finalised for publication.
We are still working out the practicalities of how we can give you access to the provisional data but we expect most of these sessions will happen in the second half of this year. We’ll update you in future newsletters on how these plans develop and will contact you in the near future to invite you to participate in this initiative.
We want to make sure as many students as possible complete a census for their term time accommodation to build an accurate and representative count of the student population. A press release was sent on 28 April. You can read the full message in the links below.
 Student press release - English
Student press release - Welsh
- Issue Nineteen - 12 March – Second homes, follow-up visits and scam guidance, geography consultation
- Issue Twenty - 19 March – Follow-up visits, scam guidance, second homes
- Issue Twenty one - 26 March – RAG response maps, social media calendar, scam guidance
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Issue Twenty two - 1 April – RAG maps, scams, COVID-19 tests for field officers
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Issue Twenty three - 13 April – HRH Duke of Edinburgh, 2nd RAG maps, Action Fraud, Messages for LAs to give the public
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Issue Twenty four - 16 April – HRH Duke of Edinburgh, 3rd RAG maps, data and security
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Issue Twenty five - 23 April – Census 2021 outputs, Census Coverage Survey, social media resources
Census 2021 Website: www.census.gov.uk
Quality Assurance: ONS’s approach and processes for assuring the quality of 2021 Census data
Census Order and Regulations for England and Wales:
Census (England and Wales) Order 2020.
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