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Home > Census programme

The ESRC Census Programme

Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

The Programme services have been funded from 2006-11 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with additional support from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and encompass data acquisition and specialist data support units. The new round of the Programme which commenced on 1 August 2006 includes further development of the access arrangements of the Programme web site and a round of research and development projects, for which a call is currently underway.

The Programme is delivered by a number of units, each with its own area of data expertise.

	Census Dissemination Unit at Mimas, University of Manchester supports the Census Area Statistics and postcode lookup tables.
	UKBORDERS service at EDINA, University of Edinburgh, supports Digitised Boundary Datasets.
	Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research at the University of Leeds and the University of St Andrews supports the migration and travel-to-work statistics.
	Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester supports the Samples of Anonymised Records.
	Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine supports the ONS Longitudinal Study for England and Wales.
	Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland at the University of St Andrews and the General Register Office for Scotland, supports the Scottish Longitudinal Study and became part of the ESRC Census Programme on 1 August 2006.
	Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Support Unit at the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University, Belfast supports the Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study and became part of the ESRC programme in April 2009.
	Anyone wishing to use the area statistics, digitised boundaries, interaction data or samples of anonymised records, should register through Census.ac.uk. The census services team based in the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex, manages registration and is also responsible for the programme web site.

The overall Programme co-ordinator is Professor David Martin at the University of Southampton.