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Population and Society

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

ProjectGeographyProject TypeTimescale
Admin Based Population Estimates (ABPE)’s derived from the Dynamic Population Model (Office for National Statistics) Phase 1England and WalesFollow upJuly 2024 - tbc
Admin Based Population Estimates (ABPE)’s derived from the Dynamic Population Model (Office for National Statistics) Phase 2 England and WalesAssessmentJanuary 2025 - tbc
Follow-up to 2021 Review of Population Estimates and ProjectionsEngland and WalesReviewMay - September 2024
2022 Census (National Records of Scotland)ScotlandAssessment
follow up on Phase 2 and starting Phase 3		Continuing from 2023
2021 Census (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency)Northern IrelandAssessment: Phase 3June 2024 - tbc
2021 Census (Office for National Statistics)England and WalesAssessment: Phase 3June 2024 - tbc
Follow up to systemic review of Long Term International Migration statistics (Office for National Statistics)United KingdomFollow-upContinuing from 2023
Gender Identity ReviewEngland and WalesReviewContinuing from 2023
Review of Excess Deaths reportingEngland and WalesFollow-upContinuing from 2023
Mortality Statistics (Office for National Statistics)England and WalesFollow-upContinuing from 2023

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