The IMPS Project (archive material)

The Improving Migration and Population Statistics (IMPS) Project pulls together various streams of work, some of which had already started, or were in the planning stages, as well as some new work. The programme of developing and modernising population statistics currently includes:

  • taking forward recommendations from the National Statistics Quality Review (NSQR) of International Migration Statistics

  • improvements to the demographic analysis capability

  • studies of local and national sources that are not currently used in the mid-year estimates (MYEs) process, including local case studies

  • developing the vision for an Integrated Population Statistics System (IPSS)

The IMPS Project does not include the Special Population Study (SPS). This is because the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has decided not to take this project forward as originally planned. ONS does not believe a field-based mid-decade benchmark is the best way to avoid a large difference between the Census and the intercensal estimate in 2011.

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