Census 2021: why it's important to take part and what happens to your information

By Richard Harris, Professor of Quantitative Social Geography, University of Bristol

Letters are dropping through doors asking people in England, Northern Ireland and Wales to fill out the 2021 census ahead of census day on March 21 (Scotland has delayed its census until 2022 because of the pandemic).

At it simplest, the census is a count of the population, recording how the numbers of people and their attributes vary from one neighbourhood to another across the UK. But how much of your information is visible to the people using the information…

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