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Important notice

On 12 September 2024, the gender identity estimates from Census 2021 were reclassified from official statistics to official statistics in development. To reflect this change in designation, the accredited official statistics logo has been removed from this page.

The change in classification reflects the innovative nature of the statistics and the evolving understanding of measuring gender identity, along with the uncertainty associated with these estimates. To support appropriate use, please refer to the Sexual orientation and gender identity quality information page before using these estimates.

Summary

This dataset provides Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales, by gender identity and unpaid carer status. 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.

England and Wales

Data for both England and Wales.

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

Gender identity

Classifies people according to the responses to the gender identity question. This question was voluntary and was only asked of people aged 16 years and over.

Unpaid care

An unpaid carer may look after, give help or support to anyone who has long-term physical or mental ill-health conditions, illness or problems related to old age.

This does not include any activities as part of paid employment.

This help can be within or outside of the carer's household.

Variables

Population type
All usual residents aged 16 years and over
Area type
England and Wales
Coverage
England and Wales
Gender identity
7 Categories
  • Gender identity the same as sex registered at birth
  • Gender identity different from sex registered at birth but no specific identity given
  • Trans woman
  • Trans man
  • All other gender identities
  • Not answered
  • Does not apply
Unpaid care
5 Categories
  • Provides no unpaid care
  • Provides 19 or less hours unpaid care a week
  • Provides 20 to 49 hours unpaid care a week
  • Provides 50 or more hours unpaid care a week
  • 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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