§ Mrs. MahonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health how many people are estimated to have been unenumerated by the 1991 census; and on what basis it has been decided that such unenumerated people will be evenly distributed across the country.
§ Mr. SackvilleA total of 965,000 people resident in England and Wales, or 1.9 per cent. of the population, are estimated to have not been enumerated in the 1991 census. Census figures are not themselves adjusted. However, the estimated under-enumeration has been taken into account in producing the Registrar General's provisional population estimates for England and Wales for mid-1991. These were published in OPCS Monitor PP1 92/1 on 16 October 1992, a copy of which is in the Library.
The figure of 965,000 is estimated by combining evidence from several different sources. Where evidence was available about the geographical distribution of under-enumeration, it was taken into account. Where 315W insufficient evidence was available at the local level, an even distribution for each age and sex group was applied across the country as a whole, or across groupings of local areas where sufficient evidence for such groups was available. Details are given in the monitor.