Beyond the 2011 Census in the United Kingdom: with an international perspective
Keith Dugmore
Demographic Decisions Limited
Peter Furness
Peter Furness Limited
Barry Leventhal
BarryAnalytics Limited
Corrine Moy
GfK NOP
Introduction
The Census of Population has underpinned survey research in the UK for more than 30 years. Geodemographic classifications were pioneered in the UK in the mid-1970s, using 1971 census results, and launched into the research industry at the 1979 MRS Conference (Bermingham et al.1979). At the time of starting to write this paper, we are in the final countdown to the 2011 census, which ‘survived’ the 2010...