Talk:Middlesbrough Council

message: This is just regarding the two articles of Middlesbrough Town and The Borough of Middlesbrough.  According to Middlesbrough Town article, the population is 142,000 but the Borough of Middlesbrough article states 137,800? Is it that the info for the Town article is based on statistics for 2005/6 and the Borough of M'bro is still using the figures from 2001? dj_paul 16:05, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: I have posted a question at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_UK_subdivisions regarding the present split between the articles Middlesbrough and Middlesbrough (borough) and invite comments.  I note that the articles are mutually contradictory, in that Middlesbrough claims that it is larger than Middlesbrough (borough), but Middlesbrough (borough) identifies places outside Middlesbrough that are in the borough; but these places are places that Middlesbrough claim are in Middlesbrough.  Please leave general comments there.  Morwen - Talk 23:07, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the 2 articles should be merged since you can see most of the borough is urbanized. Blackwave...... (talk) 18:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

text: I suggest this article is moved to Middlesbrough Borough Council and the Middlesbrough article edited to reflect the change. MRSC (talk) 10:37, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middlesbrough town / borough 

message: I was looking into population figures for Middlesbrough on the ONS and came across this document . It states that in 2004 the ONS conducted a series of studies aimed at improving local population estimates on hard to count areas during the 2001 national census.  One of these areas was the Borough of Middlesbrough. A report produced for the Local Authority of Middlesbrough showed it had become harder to enumerate the population since 1991 and it was at risk of a population under-estimate.  It was revealed that two areas of the borough, Gresham ward and Southfield ward were considered to be at risk of localised under-enumeration.  The report shows that after the study, Middlesbrough's population at the 2001 census was actually under-estimated by 5,816.  The report shows a few different figures.  At the start of the report it states that the official 2001 census for Middlesbrough was 134,847, but that was later found to be under-estimated by 5,816.  This would take the total population to 140,633.  However the final revised estimates located at the very bottom of the report show that the revised figure was 138,757 and that the original 2001 estimate was 132,941!  Within the same report it shows two conflicting results so which is the true figure is beyond me.  All that I know is this report shows the actual population of Middlesbrough in 2001 was not around 135,000 but close to 140,000. This would have put the urban sub-area at around 150,000 (with Ormesby ward).  I would like to adjust the population to the correct figure however I would like to discuss first which of the revised results to use.  Acklamite 01:56, 3rd November 2012 (UTC)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Acklamite (talk • contribs)  
:Personally I would leave as it is for now as most other places are on the original 2001 census release, also the ONS are in the process of releasing the 2011 census data when all of the articles will need revising, currently they have released the county data. Keith D (talk) 11:48, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2001 census population under estimate