Transforming the Census
Channel: National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM)
Date: 2018-01-17

Dave Martin (University of Southampton) talks at the NCRM Autumn School 2017
https://www.ncrm.ac.uk/autumn/

Abstract:
The 2020-21 round of international censuses represent a major break with traditional practice, with a huge reorientation taking place towards internet data collection and the linkage of traditional census enumeration with administrative data sources. Census data provide key baseline sociodemographic and denominator data for a vast array of research and policy applications via a variety of different data products, and the new methods being adopted will have major implications for users. Taking the England and Wales Census Transformation programme as a model, this session will explore some of the major opportunities and risks for researchers.