Want to find out what the statisticians of the time gleaned from the 1911 census data?

Take a look at the reports on the excellent Vision of Britain website from the University of Portsmouth

The UK Data Archive at the University of Essex publishes an extraordinarily useful resource on censuses, online, on its excellent histpop.org website.

Histpop is: “an online resource of almost 200,000 pages of all the published population reports created by the Registrars-General of and its predecessors for England and Wales and for Scotland for the period 1801–1920, including all Census Reports for the period 1801–1937, along with ancillary archival material from The National Archives, and critical essays contextualising much of the material.”

The section relating to the 1911 Census is crammed full of useful background documents relating to the census, including:

• Examples of the different types of schedules used
• Instructions for those involved at all points of the project
• Notes on the teaching of the Census in schools
• Many other fascinating background documents