National Statistician and Registrars General's Agreement
The Registrars General of England and Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland agreed to conduct censuses simultaneously throughout the UK in 2011.
The aim is to promote UK harmonisation and produce consistent and coherent outputs for the UK and each component country. To achieve this, several UK-wide Committees have been set up to consider different areas of census development where common methodologies and approaches can be adopted.
Find out more in the National Statistician and Registrars General's Agreement for the 2011 Census.
UK census outputs
Users can access published UK-level releases and their data on the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website.
Users can also access a number of other resources, including a comparability report and census maps, through our UK census outputs page.