To mark Remembrance Day, Morgan Brown and Heloise Wilson from the Royal British Legion reflect on the impact of Census 2021/22, which for the first time included a question about previously serving in the UK Armed Forces.
Dave Rawnsley explores how question design and definitions give a unique picture of the changing social and geographic nature of the UK’s population across the past fifty years.
Professor David Martin, Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, discusses how the UK censuses have adapted to change over the past sixty years and some of the challenges we face in 2021/22.