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METADATA :: Sample characteristics :: United Kingdom (1991 2001 Selected All )

Census Characteristics	2001
Title	2001 Census
Census Agency	Office of Population Censuses and Surveys
Population	Anyone who is temporaly away from home on the night of 28 April 2001 who usually lives at this address. Any baby born before 30 April 2001, even if still in hospital. People with more than one address if they live at this address for the majority of the time. Anyone who is staying with no other usual address. A spouse or partners who works away from home, or is a member of the armed forces, and usually lives at this address.
Universe
De jure or de facto	De jure
Enumeration unit	Occupied dwellings and communal establisments
Census day	April 29, 2001
Field work period	-
Enumeration forms used	England household form (H1)
Type of field work	Self-enumeration
Respondent	The head of Joint Heads or members of the households aged 16 or over
Coverage	No official estimates
Microdata sample characteristics	2001
Sample microdata source	Office of Population Censuses and Surverys. The 2001 SARs were sampled from the One Number Census da
Sample design	The sampling scheme for the household SAR (Sampler of anonymised records) is a stratified random sampling, where the strata are EDs (Enumeration districts). Unlike 1991, there is no stratification within EDs. The sampling scheme for the individual SAR follows the 1991 approach of drawing from the population excluding the household sample. Stratification is again by ED. The individual SAR sampled both private and communal persons, unlike the household SAR which only sampled only households.
Sample unit	Dwelling
Sample fraction	3 %
Sample fraction (private households)
Sample fraction (institutional households)
Sample size (person records)	1.843.525
Sample size (private households)
Sample size (institutional households)
Sample weights	Weights computed by census agency
Units identified	2001
Dwellings	No
Vacant units	No
Households	No
Individuals	Yes
Group quarters	Yes
Settled/unsettled Population
Special populations	Yes
Unit definitions	2001
Dwellings	-
Households	A household comprises either one person living alone or a group of people not necessarily retaled, living at the same address with common housekeeping - that is, sharing at least one meal a day or sharing a living room or sitting room.
Institutional population
Group quarters
Unsettled population