RSS FeedsCounting the Population: Treasury Committee Eleventh Report
he Treasury Committee today (Friday 23 May) publishes its Eleventh Report of Session 2007-08, Counting the Population (HC 183-I), the result of an inquiry undertaken by its Sub-Committee, chaired by Michael Fallon MP.
The Report makes a number of reccomendations concerning the current methods of population monitoring
- The International Passenger Survey, which plays a central role in estimating international migration, is not fit for this purpose and the Statistics Authority should replace it with a new more comprehensive survey that is more suited to the accurate measurement of international movements affecting the size of the resident population in the United Kingdom.
- Mid-year population estimates, based on the ‘usually resident’ definition of population do not include short-term migrants and do not fully meet the needs of Local Authorities.The Statistics Authority should establish as an immediate priority the provision of local population statistics that more accurately reflect the full range of information available about local populations and the effects of internal migration.
- The Government consult the Statistics Authority and others to remove any outstanding obstacles to the production of an address register.
- The Statistics Authority set strategic objectives to ensure that the data gathered throughout the UK can be used to produce annual population statistics that are of a quality that will enable the 2011 Census to be the last census in the UK where the population is counted through the collection of census forms.
Dated 22/05/2008
Owning Organisation
House of Commons - http://www.parliament.uk/parliamentary_committees/treasury_committee.cfm
Data Type
Research Report
Spatial Coverage
National
Theme
Society