title: 1981 census evaluation programme in England and Wales.
abstract: The program developed to evaluate the coverage and quality of results from the 1981 census of England and Wales is described.  "A post-enumeration survey was the main tool used, but for the evaluation of census coverage, this was augmented by a series of demographic checks against statistics from other administrative sources.  The main conclusion from the coverage checks was that the census probably missed about 241,000 people net (about half of one per cent of the population) including some 36,000 children aged 0-4.  At older ages than this, adults aged 16-44 were more likely to be missed than others and males rather more than females.  Students and people out of employment were also more likely to be missed than people in employment.  The quality of householders' responses to particular census questions was evaluated in a detailed post-enumeration interview survey.  The results of this showed that the questions subject to most response error were those on rooms, various aspects of economic activity and the main means of travel to work."
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D019352:Censuses; D019049:Developed Countries; D004651:Employment; D004739:England; D005060:Europe; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D006798:Housing; D011154:Population Characteristics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012737:Sex Factors; D013334:Students; D014186:Transportation; D006113:United Kingdom; D014852:Wales
keywords: Age Factors; Census; Census Methods; Developed Countries; Employment; Employment Status; England; Error Sources; Europe; Evaluation; Evaluation Report; Housing; Measurement; Northern Europe; Population Statistics; Reliability; Research Methodology; Sex Factors; Students; Transportation; Undercount; United Kingdom; Wales