National identity, number of people aged 3 years and over who can speak welsh and welsh language skills
The increase since the 2011 Census in people identifying as “British” and fall in people identifying as “English” may partly reflect true changes in self-perception. It is also likely to reflect that “British” replaced “English” as the first response option listed on the questionnaire in England.
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Summary
This dataset provides 2021 Census estimates that classify all usual residents in England and Wales by national identity, number of people aged 3 years and over who can speak welsh and welsh language skills. 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
National identity
Someone’s national identity is a self-determined assessment of their own identity, it could be the country or countries where they feel they belong or think of as home. It is not dependent on ethnic group or citizenship.
Respondents could select more than one national identity.
Number of people aged 3 years and over who can speak Welsh
Classifies people aged 3 years and over living in Wales by whether they can or cannot speak Welsh.
Welsh language skills
Whether a person has Welsh language skills. If they do, can they do any of the following:
* understand spoken Welsh
* speak Welsh
* read Welsh
* write Welsh
* no skills in Welsh
The census questionnaire only asked this question to people in Wales.
In results that classify people by Welsh language skills, a person may appear in more than one category depending on which combination of skills they have.
Protecting personal data will prevent 309 areas from being published.
How to improve your results
Try one or more of the following steps.
- Select a larger area type.
- Select fewer categories in National identity, Number of people aged 3 years and over who can speak Welsh or Welsh language skills.
- Remove variables from this dataset.
Variables
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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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