{"title":"2011 Census Field design: getting the numbers right.","authors":"Neil Townsend","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A labour force of over 30,000 temporary field staff has been employed to carry out the Census. This article summarises the role of the field staff in collecting census questionnaires from households and communal establishments for the March 2011 enumeration. Building on the lessons learned from the 2001 Census, and taking account of changes in society and technology since 2001, the article provides a summary of the planned field staff structures and processes intended to deal with returned questionnaires and non-responders.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 143","pages":"19-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29791860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Who reports address changes through the healthcare system? The characteristics of laggers and non-reporters using the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Ian Shuttleworth","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.11","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Address information from health service professionals is already important for the delivery of health care and population monitoring and screening. It is also important for statistical purposes such as the estimation of migration and small area populations and its importance could increase as the decade progresses and alternatives are sought to the traditional census. Because of this, it is important to understand more about the accuracy of address information provided through the health care system.This article considers the characteristics of 'laggers' - those who delay in reporting address changes - and 'non-reporters' - those who on occasion fail to report their addresses.The article finds that, as might be expected, laggers and non-reporters tend to be male and resident in urban and deprived areas. However, less expectedly, older people tend to be laggers, as are owner occupiers, those who are not ill, those who have some educational qualifications, and those who are self-employed. Some non-reporters are also more likely to be employed in professional jobs and to be unmarried (for example single, remarried and divorced). This suggests that poor address information is not just a problem associated with the socially deprived and the young but also with some more affluent groups such as those not experiencing limiting long-term illness. The article concludes by arguing that the checking of patients' address information should be collected under the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) as a performance indicator.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 144","pages":"45-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29982958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Primary Care Organisation Population Estimates ‐ Mid‐2010","authors":"","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.26","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":"146 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.26","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"58421600","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan Wroth-Smith, Owen Abbott, Garnett Compton, Peter Benton
{"title":"Quality assuring the 2011 Census population estimates.","authors":"Jonathan Wroth-Smith, Owen Abbott, Garnett Compton, Peter Benton","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The 2011 Census is a once in a decade opportunity to gain an accurate picture of the population. Quality assurance of the census population estimates is vital to ensure data robustness and that users have confidence in the results. This article provides a detailed summary of the methods being used to achieve this quality assurance, including the processes and adjustments.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 143","pages":"10-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29791859","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Estimating fertility rates using the ONS Longitudinal Study--what difference does the inclusion of non-continually resident members make?","authors":"James Robards, Ann Berrington, Andrew Hinde","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.10","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Among datasets available for fertility research in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study (LS) is unique in its construction and scale. The large number of individuals who are part of the study means that it is an important dataset for estimating fertility trends in England and Wales by age and parity. This article uses the LS to estimate age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) for England and Wales between 1991 and 2001. This necessitates great care to ensure that the exposure to risk of birth for female LS members is fully understood. To achieve this, two forms of residential history are defined - consistent cases where the residential information for the LS member is potentially complete for the whole decade and inconsistent cases where there is certainly some form of incompleteness in the residence information. By considering 'all consistent cases', that is both the continuously resident plus those who are not continuously resident but appear to have a complete residential history, we obtain ASFRs which are slightly lower than official statistics figures, but closer to these official figures than ASFRs produced when restricting the sample to LS members who remain continuously resident between 1991 and 2001. The fertility of those consistent cases who are not continuously resident is substantially higher than the rates of continuously resident cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 144","pages":"30-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.10","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29982956","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A new area classification for understanding internal migration in Britain.","authors":"Adam Dennett, John Stillwell","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.22","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article details the development of a new area classification for Britain based on internal migration variables taken from the 2001 Census. An explanation of why general-purpose area classifications already in existence are not ideal for internal migration analysis is provided, before an account of the construction of the new classification is given. The latter involves justification of the choice of variables, explanation of the methodology adopted and presentation of the final typology.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 145","pages":"142-67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.22","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30197703","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Population bases and the 2011 Census.","authors":"Steve Smallwood","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In an increasingly complex society there are a number of different population definitions that can be relevant for users, beyond the standard definition used in counting the population. This article describes the enumeration base for the 2011 Census and how alternative population outputs may be produced. It provides a background as to how the questions on the questionnaire were decided upon and how population bases can be constructed from the Census. Similarities and differences between the information collected across the three UK Censuses (England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland) are discussed. Finally, issues around estimating the population on alternative bases are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 143","pages":"29-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29791861","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon Whitworth, Konstantinos Loukas, Ian McGregor
{"title":"Short-term international migration trends in England and Wales from 2004 to 2009.","authors":"Simon Whitworth, Konstantinos Loukas, Ian McGregor","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Short-term migration estimates for England and Wales are the latest addition to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) migration statistics. This article discusses definitions of short-term migration and the methodology that is used to produce the estimates. Some of the estimates and the changes in the estimates over time are then discussed. The article includes previously unpublished short-term migration statistics and therefore helps to give a more complete picture of the size and characteristics of short-term international migration for England and Wales than has previously been possible. ONS have identified a clear user requirement for short-term migration estimates at local authority (LA) level. Consequently, attention is also paid to the progress that has been made and future work that is planned to distribute England and Wales short-term migration estimates to LA level.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 144","pages":"10-29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.9","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29981889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cohabitation and marriage in Britain since the 1970s.","authors":"Eva Beaujouan, Máire Ní Bhrolcháin","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.16","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The article presents an overview of trends in cohabitation and marriage in Britain over several decades, using a consistent set of retrospective histories from the General Household Survey 1979-2007. Time-trends are presented, for men and women, of: the experience of different types of partnership by specified ages, the frequency of premarital cohabitation, the average time spent in different types of partnership, the timing of life course transitions, and the outcome of cohabitation and marriage at the fifth and tenth anniversaries.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 145","pages":"31-55"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.16","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30197305","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends in A8 migration to the UK during the recession.","authors":"David McCollum, Allan Findlay","doi":"10.1057/pt.2011.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/pt.2011.18","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A substantial proportion of contemporary migration flows to the UK are made by nationals from countries which have recently joined the EU. The nature of A8 migration during the recession is examined in this paper, mainly using data from the Worker Registration Scheme. The recession has seen a decline in new A8 migrants entering the UK labour market, but the decline has been sectorally uneven, with demand for migrant labour being most persistent in the agricultural sector, raising questions about why this part of the UK economy is so different.</p>","PeriodicalId":79419,"journal":{"name":"Population trends","volume":" 145","pages":"73-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1057/pt.2011.18","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30197307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}