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The 2001 Census took place on 29 April 2001 and celebrated 200 years of census taking in England and Wales.
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Information about the 2001 Census statistical outputs, data quality and other supporting information.
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Information about legislation and the design, consultation and evaluation of the 2001 Census.
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Definitions of terms and phrases used in products and statistical outputs from the 2001 Census.
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Results from all previous censuses are available - those before the 1960's are in printed reports, but with many more recent results in electronic form.
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Census Customer Services provide expert advice about the 2011 and earlier censuses.
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The 1961 Census Small Area Statistics digitisation project is part of a body of work to make more historic Census outputs available to the public.
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Newly digitised county and district level statistics from the 1921 Census show changes in the way we lived after World War I and the Spanish flu.
2001 Census and earlier
Since 1801, every ten years the nation has set aside one day for the census - a count of all people and households. It is the most complete source of information about the population that we have. The 2001 Census was held on Sunday 29 April 2001.