A Profile of Brent
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The 2011 Census A Profile of Brent 1 Ward Boundaries 2 Contents 1: Introduction – the 2011 Census and Brent 5 4·7: Passports held ........................ 16 1·1: The 2011 Census ....................... 5 4·8: Religion ................................ 17 1·2: Census Questions ...................... 5 5: Housing and Household Characteristics .. 19 1·3: Completion and follow-up ............ 5 5·1: Tenure ................................. 19 1·4: Calculating the final estimate ....... 5 5·2: Rooms, bedrooms, central heating 20 1·5: Changes to the Census since 2001 .. 6 5·3: Dwellings .............................. 20 1·6: What is released? ...................... 6 5·4: Household spaces and 1·7: Comparability of data with 2001 .... 7 accommodation type .................. 21 1·8: Who owns the 2011 Census 5·5: Household composition .............. 23 copyright? ................................ 7 5·6: Living arrangements ................. 25 2: A profile of Brent ............................. 8 6: Economic Position and Employment ...... 26 2·1: Brent .................................... 8 6·1: Unemployment........................ 26 2·2: An increasing population ............. 8 6·2: Employed .............................. 27 2·3: Households ............................. 8 6·3: Hours worked ......................... 27 2·4: Tenure .................................. 8 6·4: Occupations ........................... 28 2·5: Overcrowding .......................... 8 6·5: Industry ................................ 28 2·6: Density .................................. 8 7: Education and Training ..................... 29 2·7: Ethnicity ................................ 8 7·1: Qualifications and Students ......... 29 2·8: Religion ................................. 8 8: Transportation and Car Ownership ....... 31 2·9: Country of birth ....................... 8 8·1: Car or van availability ............... 31 2·10: Children .............................. 8 2·11: Lone parents ........................ 8 9: Health and Provision of Unpaid Care ..... 32 2·12: Economic activity................... 9 9·1: Health limiting day-to-day activities32 2·13: The elderly .......................... 9 9·2: Description of general health ....... 32 2·14: Health ................................ 9 9·3: Provision of unpaid care ............. 33 2·15: Migration ............................. 9 Appendix A: Country of Birth ................. 34 2·16: Transportation ...................... 9 A·1: Country of birth (detailed) .......... 34 2·17: Marital status ....................... 9 Appendix B: London Boroughs ................ 39 2·18: Response and return rates ........ 9 B·1: Inner London .......................... 39 3: Population ................................... 11 B·2: Outer London ......................... 39 3·1: Normal resident population ........ 11 Appendix C: Further Information ............ 40 4: Ethnic Diversity and Religion ............. 14 C·1: The ONS Census website ............ 40 4·1: Ethnicity .............................. 14 C·2: The NOMIS website ................... 40 4·2: Country of Birth ..................... 15 C·3: The Neighbourhood Statistics 4·3: Year of Arrival ....................... 16 website .................................. 40 4·4: Length of residence in UK .......... 16 C·4: The Greater London Authority Data Store website ..................... 40 4·5: Age of arrival ......................... 16 C·5: The Brent Data website ............. 40 4·6: National Identity..................... 16 3 C·6: Brent Council demographic Glossary .......................................... 41 information contact................... 40 4 1: Introduction – the 2011 Census and Brent in case they were missed at their usual 1·1: The 2011 Census address. Census Day was 27th March 2011. The Residents at CEs were each given their Census forms were to be filled in for all own copy of the questions for individuals to those staying overnight at the address. A allow them to fill the form out in private. usual resident is defined as someone in the Such individual forms were available on UK who had stayed or intended to stay for a request for residents in households too, if period of 12 months or more; or someone they required greater privacy. who was currently outside the UK but had a As each booklet only contained space for permanent address in the UK, and intended six individuals, further individual forms could to be abroad for less than 12 months. Non-UK also be requested for households larger than short-term residents are those born outside this. Similarly, if there were more than three the UK, who had stayed or intended to stay visitors present extra forms could be for between three and 12 months. Non-UK requested to record them. residents staying or intending to stay for less than three months were defined as visitors, 1·3: Completion and follow-up as were individuals at an address whose usual Households could return their forms address was elsewhere in the UK (these either by post or online, and the returns individuals would be included on the Census were tracked. For several weeks after Census form at their usual address). Day Census staff visited households that had Every household in England and Wales yet not returned a form, to elicit as many received a compulsory questionnaire in responses as possible. Note was made of advance through the post from the Office for households that appeared to be empty, and National Statistics (ONS). This contained a there was opportunity on the form to few questions about the household and a indicate a household was a second home or longer section with questions for each holiday address. Enforcement teams were individual. It was possible to request a form deployed collecting evidence to prosecute if one had not arrived, or it could be individuals actively refusing to return a form. completed online. After this period an independent survey Residents living in Communal was undertaken (the Census Coverage Establishments (CEs: these are managed Survey, or CCS), sampling roughly 1% of accommodation such as care homes, student postcodes, which visited all households in a halls, hotels, B&B’s with room for ten or postcode (not using the address list from the more guests, and so on) were visited by Census). The residents were asked to answer Census staff to collect the forms from a small number of questions, with prompts, individuals, although the individuals could to ensure all individuals were included. also fill theirs in online if they wished. Matching between these responses and the Census allowed the ONS to estimate how 1·2: Census Questions many people were missed by the Census The Census form contained 56 questions: (and/or the survey), and this was scaled up 14 were about the household; and there to estimate for all areas. A smaller survey were 42 for each member of the household was also undertaken asking the Census (although not everyone had to answer them questions again, to allow an estimation of all, for instance those who ticked that they how accurate the answers individuals gave had never worked were directed to skip the will be overall. questions about occupation), one was even left blank!1 Each form also had space for the 1·4: Calculating the final estimate basic details for any visitors who were As soon as forms started being returned present on Census Day; this allowed a check or filled in online, the answers began to be 1 processed into the digital database. Once all Question 17 was blank on forms in England, the field work was completed these answers but contained a question on ability to speak were compiled, and age and sex profiles for Welsh on forms distributed in Wales. all local authorities were produced, including 5 the extra missed households and individuals There were also some changes in the indicated by the CCS, and some other available responses to some questions. In the corrections for over-counting, and so on. ethnic group question a tick box was added These were then rigorously quality assured for “Gypsy or Irish Traveller” in the White by a panel by comparing with a number of category, and one for “Arab” in the Other national administrative datasets (such as the category. The question on marital status had School Census, Patient Register, and social a tick box for civil partnerships (which did security information). Where discrepancies not exist in 2001 as they have only been were a cause for concern they were recognised since 2004); this could also be investigated and adjusted as the evidence indicated in the section detailing the indicated. relationships between the different With the total numbers of households respondents. and individuals by age and sex calculated, the missing households and individuals for 1·6: What is released? each local authority area were distributed The actual forms are kept secure to be down to the smallest areas (Output Areas), released only after 100 years. In the to fill in the known non-responders from the meantime tables of summary statistics are address list (minus addresses accounted for released. Most tables will be available as a as empty, second addresses, and so on). The summary for Brent as a whole, although detailed characteristics of the households some will be available for wards and smaller and individuals are copied from similar areas too. In general the more detail a table nearby households. This is known as contains the less likely it is to be released for imputation, and includes adding missing smaller and smaller areas. characteristics for individuals