title: Making an estimate of the number of people and households for Output Areas in the 2001 Census.
abstract: This article describes an investigation into the best way to estimate robust totals for people and households at Output Area level. We show that computing the average of people and household counts across the set of tables in which the same count appears is a good strategy. When we compare the mean or median person and household counts with those produced by summing from the postcode directory, the two sets of numbers are usually very close. Using averages in this way for other population bases in the sets of tables is therefore recommended. This technique can also be applied to larger areas.
authors.affiliation: School of Geography, University of Leeds.
authors.forename: Phil
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rees
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Parsons
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Norman
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D005191:Family Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006113:United Kingdom