Population and Society

Last updated on Friday 16 August 2024

Our Population and Society domain covers statistics on the size and geographic spread of the population, on the factors driving population change (including births, deaths and migration), and on people’s lifestyles and culture, including sport, language, and identity.

Our goal is to make sure that data and statistics are of sufficient quality and value to reliably support public debate and inform decision making for a wide range of stakeholders.

We will continue our assessments of the 2021 and 2022 Censuses, and most recently commenced our phase 3 assessments of 2021 Censuses in England and Wales and Northern Ireland.

We will engage with statistic producers on developments to transform population statistics. As part of this work, we recently completed the first phase of our assessment of the Office for National Statistics’ Admin-Based Population Estimates (ABPE’s)..

In our wider work in the domain, we will be following up on our interim review on gender identity and also our previous regulatory work on mortality statistics.

Our regulators for this domain are Catherine, Vicky, Gillian, Claire, Emma and Geraldine. You can contact them via regulation@statistics.gov.uk for more information or any queries.

Planned Work

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Project	Geography	Project Type	Timescale
Admin Based Population Estimates (ABPE)’s derived from the Dynamic Population Model (Office for National Statistics) Phase 1	England and Wales	Follow up	July 2024 - tbc
Admin Based Population Estimates (ABPE)’s derived from the Dynamic Population Model (Office for National Statistics) Phase 2	England and Wales	Assessment	January 2025 - tbc
Follow-up to 2021 Review of Population Estimates and Projections	England and Wales	Review	May - September 2024
2022 Census (National Records of Scotland)	Scotland	Assessment follow up on Phase 2 and starting Phase 3	Continuing from 2023
2021 Census (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)	Northern Ireland	Assessment: Phase 3	June 2024 - tbc
2021 Census (Office for National Statistics)	England and Wales	Assessment: Phase 3	June 2024 - tbc
Follow up to systemic review of Long Term International Migration statistics (Office for National Statistics)	United Kingdom	Follow-up	Continuing from 2023
Gender Identity Review	England and Wales	Review	Continuing from 2023
Review of Excess Deaths reporting	England and Wales	Follow-up	Continuing from 2023
Mortality Statistics (Office for National Statistics)	England and Wales	Follow-up	Continuing from 2023

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Published Correspondence – Population and society domain

Publications – Population and society domain

Correspondence

Alastair McAlpine to Ed Humpherson: Developing a modern statistical system – A review of Scotland’s Census 2022

26 February 2025

to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Ed Humpherson to Alastair McAlpine: Scottish Government review of Scotland’s Census 2022

26 February 2025

Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Alastair McAlpine, Scottish Government
Ed Humpherson to Sandy Fitzpatrick, Director of Census and Social Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency: 2021 Census in Northern Ireland, phase 3 report

11 February 2025

Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Sandy Fitzpatrick, NISRA
Grant Fitzner to Ed Humpherson: Temporary pause of the Personal well-being in the UK release

4 December 2024

Grant Fitzner, Office for National Statistics to Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation
Ed Humpherson to Grant Fitzner: Temporary pause of the Personal well-being in the UK release

4 December 2024

Ed Humpherson, Office for Statistics Regulation to Grant Fitzner, Office for National Statistics

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Publications

Assessment of compliance with the Code of Practice for Statistics: 2021 Census in Northern Ireland

11 February 2025

Published in: Assessment Report
Review of statistics on gender identity based on data collected as part of the 2021 England and Wales Census: Final report

12 September 2024

Published in: Assessment Report
Admin-based population estimates for England and Wales

15 July 2024

Published in: Assessment Report
The assessment of the Office for National Statistics’ Admin Based Population Estimates: Independent expertise

15 July 2024

Published in: Assessment Report
Election 2024: What to look out for

7 June 2024

Published in: Guidance
OSR’s review of excess deaths reporting

13 February 2023

Published in: Reviews
Review of Migration Statistics produced by the Office for National Statistics

1 March 2022

Published in: Reviews
Review of Loneliness Statistics

14 September 2021

Published in: Systemic Reviews
Review of population estimates and projections produced by the Office for National Statistics

10 May 2021

Published in: Reviews
COVID-19 surveillance and registered deaths data review

22 April 2020

Published in: Reviews

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News & Events

OSR Publishes its Final Report on the Review of the Statistics Collected on Gender Identity During the England and Wales Census

12 September 2024
OSR publishes findings and requirements for ONS to enhance their Admin-Based Population Estimates (ABPEs)

15 July 2024
OSR updates on ONS’s progress with the transformation of international migration statistics

7 December 2023
OSR Publishes Assessment of 2022 Census in Scotland

4 April 2023
OSR confirms the National Statistics designation of 2021 Census in England and Wales

28 June 2022
OSR is delighted to confirm the National Statistics designation of 2021 Census in Northern Ireland

24 May 2022
OSR statement on claims related to economic migrants

28 April 2022
OSR statement on statistics around refugees

30 March 2022
OSR publishes report on ONS migration statistics

1 March 2022
OSR welcomes ONS blog on COVID-19 deaths: to say only 17,000 people have died from COVID-19 is highly misleading

26 January 2022

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