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Census

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2010:"As the Director General for the Office for National Statistics (ONS) I have been asked to reply to your recent question asking pursuant to the Answer of 27 January 2010, Official Report, column 795, on the 2011 Census, what the most recent estimate is of the (a) absolute response rate in terms of number of respondents and (b) percentage response rate in each of the pilot local authority areas for the 2011 Census rehearsals; in which (i) wards and (ii) postcode areas rehearsals were held in each of the pilot areas; and what the criteria were by which the sub-areas were selected. (318330)""The rehearsal was unlike the Census in that it was voluntary and publicity was necessarily limited. It included 133,890 addresses (61,725 in Lancaster, 38,618 in Newham and 33,547 in Anglesey); 49,300 returns were received.""In order to rehearse our procedures appropriately, 51% of addresses were pre-selected to be subject to the full follow-up process; the remainder were not followed up if they did not respond. In the Census itself, it is the intention that all non responding households will be followed up.""(a) Measuring return rates from those 68,000 households subject to the full process, we had 27,500 returns (41%).""(b) The percentage return rate in each of the rehearsal local authority areas is:"

	Percentage
Lancaster	48
Newham	28
Anglesey	49

"(i) and (ii) All wards in Lancaster and Anglesey were included in the rehearsal.""Areas in Newham were selected by lower super output areas, a statistical geography, which do not always align with ward boundaries. All or part of the wards and postcode sectors shown at Annex A were part of the Newham rehearsal.""The particular criteria for choosing sub-areas in Newham were that they should contain around 40,000 households, a number of communal establishments and a traveller site; that they should have high concentrations of multiple occupancy and students; that they should be contiguous. The areas were chosen in order to reflect some of the particular challenges representative of hard to enumerate areas."Annex A(i) Wards in which the rehearsal was heldAll wards in Lancaster and Anglesey and the following in Newham:

Ward reference	Ward name	LA name	Level of ward inclusion
OOBBGU	Stratford and New Town	Newham	Whole
OOBBGG	East Ham Central	Newham	Partial
OOBBGK	Forest Gate North	Newham	Partial
OOBBGD	Canning Town North	Newham	Partial
OOBBGF	Custom House	Newham	Partial
OOBBGE	Canning Town South	Newham	Partial
OOBBGS	Plaistow South	Newham	Partial
OOBBGB	Beckton	Newham	Partial
OOBBGJ	East Ham South	Newham	Partial
OOBBGX	West Ham	Newham	Partial
OOBBGT	Royal Docks	Newham	Partial
OOBBGL	Forest Gate South	Newham	Partial
OOBBGH	East Ham North	Newham	Partial
OOBBGC	Boleyn	Newham	Partial
OOBBGW	Wall End	Newham	Partial

(ii) Postcode areasNewham"E1""E12""E13""E15""E16""E3""E6""E7"Lancaster"CH3""LA1""LA2""LA3""LA4""LA5""LA6""LA7""PR3"Anglesey"LL00""LL58""LL59""LL60""LL61""LL62""LL63""LL64""LL65""LL66""LL67""LL68""LL69""LL70""LL71""LL72""LL73""LL74""LL75""LL76""LL77""LL78"

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

508 c220-2W; 318330

Session

2009-10

Related items

2011 Census
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
Oral questions
House of Commons

Subjects

Census

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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