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On 13 July 2021, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will be launching a public 12-week Census 2021 outputs consultation.
In the consultation, we will share our plans for the content design and release of Census 2021 outputs. You will have the opportunity to tell us if our plans meet your needs. You will also be able to share any priorities or changing needs you have for Census 2021 data and analysis. Your feedback will help us make decisions on the final design of the Census 2021 outputs for England and Wales.
As major users of census statistics it is crucial that the requirements of local authorities are known and understood. Please encourage your teams to respond to the consultation. We would appreciate you bringing it to the attention of relevant departments in your authority.
We are interested in your views on the different population bases for which data will be available given the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
We also think you will be especially interested in the sections on main changes to variables since the 2011 Census. In this section we discuss the proposals for the new questions on sexual orientation, gender identity and armed forces membership – which will be useful for you when, for example, considering the equality profile of your area.
Introduction to the consultation webinar
To introduce the consultation, the Outputs team are inviting you to attend one of their consultation launch webinars.
These webinars are our opportunity to:
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Explain the importance of consulting with us now This census has taken place during a period of rapid societal change. We want to get an updated view of users’ detailed needs for information and analysis from Census 2021 data, to ensure our products meet those changing and emerging needs. This presentation will outline the importance of, changes to, and new opportunities for Census 2021 data and analysis.
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Outline the Census 2021 outputs and analysis proposals We will share our proposals for the census data we are planning to produce. These proposals cover the full census outputs and analysis release schedule and will include specific questions around our proposed dataset specifications, analysis products and feasibility work for new variables. In this presentation we will introduce several of our proposals and show they have been grouped into sections to help users find and feedback on the topics relevant to their work.
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Share how users can take part in the consultation We will provide a demonstration on Citizen Space, the ONS’s online consultation platform. This demonstration will introduce what the online consultation looks like, how it has been modularised so users can go straight to the questions of interest, and where users can find supporting information to help inform their response to the consultation questions.
Register: To book your place, please visit Eventbrite and register for one of our webinar dates.
- 15 July 2021, 12:45-14:00
- 16 July 2021, 12:30-13:45
- 3 August 2021, 11:15-12:30
Please get in touch with the LA Partnership team at 2021Census.LA.Liaison@ons.gov.uk if you have any questions.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to all CLMs and ACLMs who completed our LA Census 2021 engagement evaluation survey. We had an excellent response and are working through your feedback and comments. We hope to share some of this information with you in a future newsletter.
Everyone who expressed an interest in attending one of our focus groups should have received an email inviting them to register. We are keen to keep the groups small and spaces are filling quickly, so please let us know if you did not receive the email. Only those who clicked 'Yes' to the focus group question will have received this invitation.
We sent an email to all CLMs and ACLMs on Monday inviting you to take part in the Quality Assurance process. If you have not received this email please contact the LA Partnership team at 2021Census.LA.Liaison@ons.gov.uk.
The Census Quality Survey (CQS) is happening now. It’s a voluntary telephone survey that happens after the census collection operation ends.
Taking part in this survey is just as important as completing the census. The results of the CQS let us work out the accuracy of the information collected in the census and will help to improve our statistics.
We ask a certain number of households in England and Wales to take part by answering most of the same questions from the census questionnaire. This will be done over the telephone by trained interviewers.
Chosen households will receive a letter inviting them to respond. If you are asked about participation in the CQS you can direct people to information about it on the Census 2021 website link (The Census Quality Survey (CQS)). There is also detailed information on the CQS on the ONS website here>> find out more about the Census Quality Survey.
As the Census Quality Survey (CQS) is currently underway, we wanted to remind you about the potential scams that still exist.
If a household is chosen to take part in the CQS, they will receive a letter from us explaining what to do next. To be able to complete the telephone survey we will ask the householder to provide a contact number.
We are keen to protect the public from any scams so please make your residents aware that:
- We will never contact someone by text in relation to the census unless you’ve texted us – our responses will come from 86677
- We will never issue a fine by text, phone call, email or social media
- We will never ask you for your national insurance number, passwords, bank account details, or your credit or debit card numbers
- Scam text messages can be forwarded to 7726 and scam emails to report@phishing.gov.uk
Further information can be found on our website at census.gov.uk/your-data-and-security/how-we-will-contact-or-visit-you. We would be grateful if you could publicise this on your website or on social media. We have also addressed scams in a social media mythbuster series on twitter:
https://twitter.com/Census2021/status/1388076668472938501
- 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
- Issue Twenty six - 30 April – What happens next, CCS, Non-compliance, QA, Students
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Issue Twenty seven - 10 May – Press release, Census scams, schools update
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Issue Twenty eight - 2 Jun – What happens now?, Census scams, What has been achieved?
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Issue Twenty nine - 16 Jun – LA survey, Outputs consultation, Census scams, primary school winners
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