Census data on crime, employment and income from 1971 to 2011

You asked

Please provide census data on crime, employment, income, and immigration for the wards of Eastbrook, Thames, and Chadwell Heath in Barking and Dagenham, as well as in Holland, Golborne, and Brompton wards for Kensington and Chelsea. All for the years 1971, 1981, 1991, 2001 and 2011, or years close to that

For crime data, please provide the number of crimes committed per area, also the type of crime

For employment, I want the type of employment as well as overall numbers in employment

For income, please provide average incomes per ward

For immigration please provide immigrant populations of each ward, possibly split up by source nation.

We said

Thank you for your enquiry.

For the purposes of this FOI data was collated from the Crime statistics team and the Census Customer Services. Data is provided for the sections of crime, employment and immigration. Data about income is not available as Census Customer Services can only provide statistics from information collected by one of the decennial censuses. A question on income has never been asked in any census and therefore we are unable to supply information.

Crime

We publish figures on the levels and trends of crime in England and Wales, primarily based on two sets of crime statistics: the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and police recorded crime data. Unfortunately, neither of these sources provide data at the geography you are looking for.

For the CSEW, the survey sample was designed to provide accurate estimates of crime primarily at the national level for England and Wales. Therefore, the sample does not provide a robust enough base to produce reliable estimates for smaller geographies such as wards.

For police recorded crime data at Community Safety Partnership and local authority level can be found at Recorded crime data at Community Safety Partnership and local authority level. The Home Office do publish some street level crime data via the Police.UK website and you can access the site and data here: https://data.police.uk/.

The Metropolitan Police may also be able to help you further. They can be contacted via the following link: https://www.met.police.uk/rqo/request/ri/request-information/rip/request-information-police/

For any further enquiries, you can contact us at CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk

Immigration

Data comes from the Census and the following are attached to this FOI:

• Tables 2001 and 2011 - Ethnic group by country of birth for the required wards.
• Table 1991 Local base statistics - Ethnic group and county of birth (not cross-tabulated) for the required wards.
• Table 1981 Small area statistics - Country of birth for the required wards.

• 1981-2011 sourced from Nomis

• Images 1971 Small area statistics - One image per ward, includes country of birth (no Thames ward).

• 1971 sourced from SAS ward library 100% population, stored on internal shared drive

Employment

The information provided has been taken from the following census years 2011, 2001, 1991, 1981 and 1971.

The census data for 2011, 2001, 1991 and 1981 has been taken from the Nomis website.

The following key statistics (KS) tables are provided, detailing all persons across one spreadsheet and the wards have been identified on the tabs across the bottom of the spreadsheet along with the corresponding year.

• KS601EW - Economic activity by sex (2011)
• KS009a - Economic activity (2001)
• 1991 census - Local base statistics
• 1981 census - Small area statistics

For the 1971, 1981 and 1991 Censuses, responses to some questions needed detailed coding and were, therefore, expensive to process so were processed for only a 10% sample of forms. The samples were drawn randomly.

Guidance given to users for 1971 and 1981 was to gross up the figures to 100% by multiplying the sample figures by 10.

In 1991 guidance was different in that users were advised to estimate 100% figures by multiplying the sample count by a sampling factor, slightly over 10 to take account of the numbers of households imputed in the 100% figures but which were not included in the 10% sample. This grossing factor varied from area to area. For households in England and Wales it was 10.2.

When processing questionnaires from the 1991 and 1981 Censuses, we divided the questions into those whose responses were easily coded, e.g.a tick in a box, and those whose responses were more difficult to code, e.g. descriptive answers such as occupation and industry.

Data from 1971 is very limited and therefore is not held within a table. A series of scanned images have been attached which show the data pertaining to economic activity for the following wards:

• Brompton
• Eastbrook
• Golborne
• Holland

Economic Activity - 1971 Table 23 for the ward of Chadwell Heath is also attached as a PDF as the actual file is missing so an extract has been produced.

The ward of Thames did not exist in the London Borough of Barking in 1971, to verify this I have attached Table 3 from the County report for Greater London (0002.pdf)

For any further enquires, do not hesitate to contact us at CrimeStatistics@ons.gov.uk or Census.Customer.Services@ons.gov.uk