Passports held by country of birth

Important information:

Where a person recorded having more than one passport, they were counted only once, categorised in the following priority order: 1. UK passport, 2. Irish passport, 3. Other passport. Only the first country written in “Other passport” was taken.

Read more about this quality notice.

Summary

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents in England and Wales by country of birth and by passports held. The estimates are as at Census Day, 21 March 2021.

Variable and dataset information

Area type

Census 2021 statistics are published for a number of different geographies. These can be large, for example the whole of England, or small, for example an output area (OA), the lowest level of geography for which statistics are produced.

For higher levels of geography, more detailed statistics can be produced. When a lower level of geography is used, such as output areas (which have a minimum of 100 persons), the statistics produced have less detail. This is to protect the confidentiality of people and ensure that individuals or their characteristics cannot be identified.

Lower tier local authorities

Lower tier local authorities provide a range of local services. There are 309 lower tier local authorities in England made up of 181 non-metropolitan districts, 59 unitary authorities, 36 metropolitan districts and 33 London boroughs (including City of London). In Wales there are 22 local authorities made up of 22 unitary authorities.

Coverage

Census 2021 statistics are published for the whole of England and Wales. However, you can choose to filter areas by:

  • country - for example, Wales
  • region - for example, London
  • local authority - for example, Cornwall
  • health area – for example, Clinical Commissioning Group
  • statistical area - for example, MSOA or LSOA

Passports held

All passports classifies a person according to the passport or passports they held at the time of the census. This included expired passports or travel documents people were entitled to renew. Where a person recorded having more than one passport, they were counted only once, categorised in the following priority order: 1. UK passport, 2. Irish passport, 3. Other passport.

Country of birth

The country in which a person was born.

For people not born in one of in the four parts of the UK, there was an option to select "elsewhere".

People who selected "elsewhere" were asked to write in the current name for their country of birth.

Variables

Population type
All usual residents
Area type
Lower tier local authorities
Coverage
England and Wales
Country of birth
22 Categories
  • Europe: United Kingdom: England
  • Europe: United Kingdom: Northern Ireland
  • Europe: United Kingdom: Scotland
  • Europe: United Kingdom: Wales
  • Europe: United Kingdom: Great Britain not otherwise specified
  • Europe: United Kingdom: United Kingdom not otherwise specified
  • Europe: Ireland
  • Europe: Other Europe
  • Africa: North Africa
  • Africa: Central and Western Africa
  • Africa: South and Eastern Africa
  • Africa: Africa not otherwise specified
  • Middle East and Asia: Middle East
  • Middle East and Asia: Eastern Asia
  • Middle East and Asia: Southern Asia
  • Middle East and Asia: South-East Asia
  • Middle East and Asia: Central Asia
  • The Americas and the Caribbean: North America and the Caribbean
  • The Americas and the Caribbean: Central and South America
  • Antarctica and Oceania (including Australasia)
  • Other
  • Does not apply
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Passports held
11 Categories
  • Europe: United Kingdom
  • Europe: Ireland
  • Europe: Other Europe: EU Member countries
  • Europe: Other Europe: Rest of Europe
  • Africa
  • Middle East and Asia
  • British Overseas Territories
  • No passport held
  • Does not apply
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Protecting personal data

Sometimes we need to make changes to data if it is possible to identify individuals. This is known as statistical disclosure control.

In Census 2021, we:

  • swapped records (targeted record swapping), for example, if a household was likely to be identified in datasets because it has unusual characteristics, we swapped the record with a similar one from a nearby small area (very unusual households could be swapped with one in a nearby local authority)
  • added small changes to some counts (cell key perturbation), for example, we might change a count of four to a three or a five – this might make small differences between tables depending on how the data are broken down when we applied perturbation

Read more in Section 5 of our article Design for Census 2021.

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