UK Data Service Census Support

The UK Data Service Census Support provides you with access to 1971 - 2021 Censuses of Population and related resources. You can get access to support, training materials and useful case studies of how to use census data effectively. You can also search for data by themes including: ageing, crime, economics, education, environment and energy, ethnicity, food and food security, health and health behaviour, housing and housing environment, information and communication, labour market, politics, and poverty and social exclusion.

You can access the following datasets:

• 2021 Census - aggregate data, boundary data + (flow data and microdata – coming 2023/4)
• 2011 Census - aggregate data, boundary data, flow data and microdata
• 2001 Census - aggregate data, boundary data, flow data and microdata
• 1991 Census - aggregate data, boundary data, flow data and microdata
• 1981 Census - aggregate data, boundary data and flow data
• 1971 Census - aggregate data, boundary data

Free or paid for:

Free

EDINA is a world class centre of digital and data expertise, at the University of Edinburgh, with 20 years’ experience and expertise in providing support and advice to researchers in HEIs across the UK, in geospatial data, Census data and newly emerging technology and data services relating to the Internet of Things, Text & Data Mining and Satellite data.