§ Mr. Costainasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list the documents so far published relating to the 1971 Census; and what further documents will be published this year.
§ Sir K. JosephThe preliminary report on the 1971 Census for England and 287W Wales, giving provisional figures for the population of each local authority, as enumerated, was published last August.
Beginning very soon, a series of county leaflets will be published over a period of two or three months (from the machine-readable documents prepared by the enumerators) providing an advance analysis of the estimated population of local authority areas of 15,000 population and above by sex, age and marital condition and, for persons of 15 years of age and over, the number in employment, not in employment or retired or unoccupied.
It is hoped to publish a national summary of these figures together with some information on country of birth. Further analyses anticipating the full tabulations will be drawn from a 1 per cent. sample of census forms and will be published later this year, giving figures, mainly at a national level, for the subjects mentioned above and for household composition, numbers of children, countries of birth, the occupation, industry and employment status of the working population and socio-economic classes.
Publication of the main tabulations will begin in the early part of this year with the first of a series of County Reports. These will give information by local authority areas on demography, housing (including tenure, amenities and density of occupation), persons in institutions and retired persons and employment. The last of these County Reports should be published in the late summer and will be followed by volumes in which the subjects are analysed in greater detail but mainly at a national level.
After the end of this year volumes will be published on further topics including migration, journey to work, fertility and qualified manpower.