The UK 2001 census question on within household relationships

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Máté, Ian | Miller, Gillian

Affiliations: General Register Office for Scotland, Ladywell house, Ladywell Road, Edinburgh, EH12 7TF, UK. Tel.: +44 131 314 4295; Fax: +44 131 314 4344; E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract: In 1997, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the Statistical Office of the European Communities introduced recommendations for the 2000 round of censuses. Part of the recommendations on family and household types, included the identification of ‘hidden’ and ‘reconstituted’ families [1]. In response to this request, the 3 Census Offices in the UK, namely Scotland, England & Wales and Northern Ireland developed a question to fulfil this requirement. It is the development of this question known as the “Relationship Matrix” and the results achieved that are outlined in this paper.

Keywords: UK, census, relationship, matrix

DOI: 10.3233/SJU-2003-20103

Journal: Statistical Journal of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 27-37, 2003