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Country of birth (uk), passports held, religion and year of arrival in the uk

Important 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.

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Summary

This dataset provides 2021 Census estimates that classify all usual residents in England and Wales by country of birth (uk), passports held, religion and year of arrival in the uk. The estimates are as at census day, 21 March 2021.

Variable and dataset information

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

England and Wales

Data for both England and Wales.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. However, you can choose to filter areas by:

  • country - for example, Wales
  • region - for example, London
  • local authority - for example, Cornwall
  • health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
  • statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Country of birth (UK)

The country in which a person was born.

For people not born in one of the four countries of the UK or the Republic of Ireland, there was an option to select "elsewhere".

People who selected "elsewhere" were asked to write in the current name for their country of birth.

Passports held

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.

Religion

The religion people connect or identify with (their religious affiliation), whether or not they practise or have belief in it.

This question was voluntary and includes people who identified with one of 8 tick-box response options, including "No religion", alongside those who chose not to answer this question.

Year of arrival in the UK

The year someone not born in the UK last arrived in the UK. This does not include returning from short visits away from the UK.

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Variables

Population type
All usual residents
Area type
England and Wales
Coverage
England and Wales
Country of birth (UK)
3 Categories
  • Born in the UK
  • Born outside the UK
  • Does not apply
Passports held
4 Categories
  • UK passport
  • Non-UK passport
  • No passport held
  • Does not apply
Religion
10 Categories
  • No religion
  • Christian
  • Buddhist
  • Hindu
  • Jewish
  • Muslim
  • Other religion
  • Not answered
  • Does not apply
Show all 10 categories
Year of arrival in the UK
13 Categories
  • Born in the UK
  • Arrived before 1951
  • Arrived 1951 to 1960
  • Arrived 1961 to 1970
  • Arrived 1971 to 1980
  • Arrived 1981 to 1990
  • Arrived 1991 to 2000
  • Arrived 2001 to 2010
  • Arrived 2011 to 2013
  • Arrived 2014 to 2016
  • Arrived 2017 to 2019
  • Arrived 2020 to 2021
  • Does not apply
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Protecting personal data

Sometimes we need to make changes to data if it is possible to identify individuals. This is known as statistical disclosure control.

In Census 2021, we:

  • swapped records (targeted record swapping), for example, if a household was likely to be identified in datasets because it has unusual characteristics, we swapped the record with a similar one from a nearby small area (very unusual households could be swapped with one in a nearby local authority)
  • added small changes to some counts (cell key perturbation), for example, we might change a count of four to a three or a five – this might make small differences between tables depending on how the data are broken down when we applied perturbation

Read more in Section 5 of our article Design for Census 2021.

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