Passports held variable: Census 2021

Mnemonic: passports_all
Applicability: Person
Type: Derived variable

Definition

All passports classifies a person according to the passport or passports they held at the time of the census. This included expired passports or travel documents people were entitled to renew. Where a person recorded having more than one passport, they were counted only once, categorised in the following priority order: 1. UK passport, 2. Irish passport, 3. Other passport.

Classification

Total number of categories: 52

*Students and schoolchildren living away during term-time.

View all passports held classifications.

Quality information

Where a person recorded having more than one passport, they were counted only once, categorised in the following priority order: 1. UK passport, 2. Irish passport, 3. Other passport. Only the first country written in “Other passport” was taken.

Read more in our Demography and migration quality information for Census 2021 methodology.

Background

Read about how we developed and tested the questions for Census 2021.

Comparability with the 2011 Census

Broadly comparable

We have changed some categories to make them more consistent with country classifications used in other national statistics.

What does broadly comparable mean?

A variable that is broadly comparable means that it can be generally compared with the same variable used in the 2011 Census. However, changes may have been made to the question or options that people could choose from or how write-in answers are classified.

England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland comparisons

Not comparable

This variable is not comparable as the data is not available for all countries.

What does not comparable mean?

A variable that is not comparable means that it cannot be compared for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Find out more about variables produced for Census 2021 in Northern Ireland and Census 2022 in Scotland.

Census 2021 data that uses this variable

We use variables from Census 2021 data to show findings in different ways.

You can:

• get the passports held dataset
• view passports held data on a map

Alternatively, you can also create a custom dataset.

Other datasets that use this variable

• Passports held (detailed)
• Economic activity status by passports held
• Passports held by country of birth
• Passports held by age
• Passports held by year of arrival in the UK
• Number of non-UK born short-term residents by passports held (detailed)
• Approximated social grade by passports held
• Out of term-time population by passports held (detailed)
• Workday population by passports held (detailed)
• Workplace population by passports held (detailed)
• Origin and destination of migrants by passport held and sex (lower tier local authorities)
• Origin and destination of international migrants by passport held and sex
• Origin and destination of migrants by passport held and sex (upper tier local authorities)
• Location of usual residence and second address by passport held (lower tier local authorities)
• Location of usual residence and second address by passport held (upper tier local authorities)
• Location of usual residence and second address by second address type by passport held
• Origin and destination of people who moved from a student term-time or boarding school address in the UK in the year before the census by passport held (lower tier local authorities)
• Origin and destination of people who moved from a student term-time or boarding school address in the UK in the year before the census by passport held (upper tier local authorities)
• Origin and destination of people who moved from a student term-time or boarding school address in the UK in the year before the census by passport held by sex and by student status
• Location of usual residence and place of work by passport held
• Location of usual residence and place of work by passport held by sex by student employment status