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How high-quality data can make meaningful change: a case study of the Armed Forces community

  • 11 November 2025

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.

Looking to the future of the UK censuses

  • 21 June 2022

Professor David Martin, Deputy Director of the UK Data Service, explores possible future directions for the UK censuses.

It’s in the detail: changes to census definitions and concepts over fifty years

  • 16 June 2022

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.

Change and continuity in the UK censuses

  • 14 June 2022

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.

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