1971 United Kingdom census

Census of the population of the United Kingdom April 2022 March 2026 1981 1981 United Kingdom census United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 1966 1966 United Kingdom census 25 April 1971 Census 1971 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/2001censusandearlier/aquickguideto1991andearliercensuses The United Kingdom Census 1971 was a census of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland carried out on 25 April 1971. The census will be released in 2071.Census detective. The National Archive. Retrieved 6 July 2017. A test census for this census year was conducted in 1968.Newman Dennis 1971 The Planning of the 1971 Census of Population https://www.jstor.org/stable/2987033 Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) 20 2 15–31 10.2307/2987033 0039-0526 subscription According to the preliminary general results of the census, the population of the United Kingdom on 25 April 1971 was as follows:Paxton J. https://books.google.com/books?id=iejIDQAAQBAJ&dq=%2243,460,525%22+%2225+april+1971%22&pg=PA69 The Statesman's Year-Book 1975-76 2016-12-22 Springer 978-0-230-27104-3 69, 132 en + Results Territory Total Population Male Female England England 45,879,670 22,299,460 23,580,210 Scotland Scotland 5,228,963 2,514,622 2,714,341 Wales Wales 2,724,275 1,324,205 1,400,070 Northern Ireland Northern Ireland 1,536,065 754,676 781,389 Jersey Guernsey Channel Islands 125,240 60,805 64,435 Isle of Man Isle of Man 49,743 23,007 26,736 United Kingdom United Kingdom (total) 55,573,956 27,006,775 28,567,181 The 1971 census was the first to ask when a foreign born resident arrived in the UK,Dale Angela The research value of the census of population: experiences from the UK https://hummedia.manchester.ac.uk/institutes/cmist/archive-publications/occasional-papers/17-research-value-of-the-census.pdf however this was not continued again until 2011. In addition to removed census questions, it was the first to ask residents about their parents' country of birth,Ethnic minority entrepreneurship in Britain https://www.researchgate.net/publication/46542782_Ethnic_minority_entrepreneurship_in_Britain which was not asked again in any other census following. It was the first census additionally that allowed for the outputting of small area geography statistics in enumeration districts, and asked for specific date of birth instead of just the present age of residents to get a more precise age at the date of the census. See also Census in the United Kingdom List of United Kingdom censuses References 1966 UK census 1971 1981 1971 Census Category:April 1971 in the United Kingdom Category:1971 censuses