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2011 Census - COVID19 Research Database Subset

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A subset of 2011 Census variables (and variable breakdowns) in the COVID-19 Research Database

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[{"id": "", "description": null, "name": "census_2011", "dataElementsCount": 43, "dataElements": [{"id": "", "description": "A long term condition is any condition(s) which has lasted, or is expected to last at least 12 months. People were asked to tick all boxes that applied to them, of which there were 10. This variable reports how many boxes have been ticked i.e. how many conditions from the list they have. For LTCOND2 each tick simply counts as 1 i.e. a person could have ticked one box to refer to several long-term health conditions but this will only be recorded as 1. If the individual has ticked one of the boxes stating they have a condition as well as the \u2018No condition\u2019 box the \u2018No condition\u2019 tick will be ignored.", "name": "Long-term health condition: number of conditions", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Country of birth is the country in which a person was born. The grouping of countries within the classification is broadly regional, but takes into account the grouping of European Union (EU) countries. Countries in the EU are grouped into those that were EU members in March 2001, and those that became members (accession countries) between April 2001 and March 2011 as part of the EU enlargement process.", "name": "Country of birth", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Occupancy rating provides a measure of whether a household\u2019s accommodation is overcrowded or under-occupied and gives an indication of how many households may be living in overcrowded conditions.\nThe occupancy rating of a household is calculated by subtracting the notional number of rooms required from the actual number of rooms (ROOMS).\nThe ages of the household members and their relationships to each other are used to derive the notional number of rooms they require, based on a standard formula.\nThe total room requirements for a multi-person household are:\nOne room per couple or lone parent.\nOne room per person aged 16 and above who is not a lone parent or in a couple.\nOne room for every two males aged 10-15, rounded down.\nOne room for every pair of males of whom one is aged 10-15 and one is aged 0-9, if there are an odd number of males aged 10-15.\nOne room for a remaining unpaired male aged 10-15 if there are no males aged 0-9 to pair him with.\nRepeat steps 3-5 for females.\nOne room for every two remaining children aged 0-9 (regardless of gender), rounded up.\nAdd two rooms to this total.\nExample 1\nBased on the requirements, a one-person household requires three rooms in total. This is based on step 1 and 8.\nExample 2\nThis example is based on a household with two parents with male children aged 17, 13, and 8, and two female children both aged 11:\nOne room for the two parents. [Running total =1]\nOne room for the 17-year-old. [Running total =2]\nThere is one male aged 10-15, so this count is zero (0.5 is rounded down). [Running total = 2]\nOne room for the 13-year-old paired with the 8-year-old. [Running total =3]\nThere are no remaining unpaired males aged 10-15. [Running total =3]\nOne room for the two female 11-year-olds. [Running total =4]\nThere are no remaining children aged 0-9. [Running total =4]\nAdd two. [Total =6]\nThis household requires six rooms in total.\nThe number of rooms required is subtracted from the number of rooms in the household's accommodation to obtain the occupancy rating.\nAn occupancy rating of -1 implies that a household has one fewer room than required, whereas +1 implies that they have one more room than the standard requirement.", "name": "Occupancy rating", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Marital and civil partnership status classifies an individual according to their legal marital or registered same-sex civil partnership status\u00a0as at 27th March 2011. This topic was included\u00a0in the 2001 Census but it has to be revised in order to take account of registered same-sex partnerships after the adoption of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.", "name": "Marital and civil partnership status", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Blind or partially visually impared", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Postcode of the workplace, or educational establishment (hashed)", "name": "Workplace Postcode (Hashed)", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The method of travel used for the longest part, by distance, of the usual journey to work or place of study.", "name": "Method of travel to place of work or study", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Age is derived from the date of birth question and is a person\u2019s age on 27th March 2011. Dates of birth that imply an age over 115 are treated as invalid and the person\u2019s age is imputed. Infants less than one year old are classed as being 0 years of age.", "name": "Accommodation type", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The size of a household is equal to the number of usual residents in the household. Visitors staying at an address do not contribute to that household\u2019s size because they are counted in the household of their place of usual residence.", "name": "Household size", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The number of persons per room is equal to the number of usual residents in a household divided by the number of rooms in that household\u2019s accommodation. The definition of a room does not include bathrooms, toilets, halls or landings, or rooms that can only be used for storage. All other rooms, for example kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms, utility rooms, studies and conservatories are counted. If two rooms have been converted into one, they are counted as one room. Rooms shared between a number of households, for example a shared kitchen, are not counted.", "name": "Persons per rooms, number of household", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Learning Disability", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The dimensions of deprivation used to classify households are indicators based on four selected household characteristics. A household is deprived in a dimension if they meet one or more of the following conditions:\nemployment: where any member of a household, who is not a full-time student, is either unemployed or long-term sick,\neducation: no person in the household has at least level 2 education (see highest level of qualification), and no person aged 16-18 is a full-time student,\nhealth and disability: any person in the household has general health that is \u2018bad\u2019 or \u2018very bad\u2019 or has a long term health problem, and\nhousing: the household's accommodation is either overcrowded, with an occupancy rating -1 or less, or is in a shared dwelling, or has no central heating.\n\nA household is classified as being deprived in none, or one to four of these dimensions in any combination.", "name": "Household deprivation classification", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Number of cars or vans in a household", "name": "Number of cars in household", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "General health is a self-assessment of a person's general state of health. People were asked to assess whether their health was very good, good, fair, bad or very bad. This assessment is not based on a person's health based over any specified period of time.", "name": "General health", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The highest level of qualification is derived from the question asking people to indicate all types of qualifications held. There were 10 response options (plus \u201cno qualifications\u201d) covering professional and vocational qualifications, and a range of academic qualifications. For the purpose of statistical outputs, these are combined into four categories for the highest level of qualification, plus a category for no qualifications.", "name": "Highest level of qualification", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The industry in which a person works relates to their main job and is derived from information provided on the main activity of their employer or business. This is used to assign responses to an industry code based on the Standard Industrial Classification 2007.", "name": "Industry", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Tenure provides information about whether a household rents or owns the accommodation that it occupies and, if rented, combines this with information about the type of landlord who owns or manages the accommodation.", "name": "Tenure of household", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "8-fold classification of Urban Rural", "name": "Urban Rural Classification", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Ethnic group classifies people according to their own perceived ethnic group and cultural background.", "name": "Ethnic group", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable is for Scotland only and has been derived from HRSWRKD to synchronise with ONS groupings.", "name": "Hours worked", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "A communal establishment is an establishment providing managed residential accommodation. \u2018Managed\u2019 in this context means full-time or part-time supervision of the accommodation.\nTypes of communal establishment include:\n\u2022 Sheltered accommodation units where fewer than 50 per cent of the units in the establishment have their own cooking facilities, or similar accommodation where residents have their own rooms, but the main meal is provided. If half or more possess their own facilities for cooking (regardless of use) all units in the whole establishment are treated as separate households.\n\u2022 Small hotels, guest houses, bed & breakfasts, inns and pubs with residential accommodation with room for 10 or more guests (excluding the owner/manager and his/her family).\n\u2022 All accommodation provided solely for students (during term-time). This includes university-owned cluster flats, houses and apartments located within student villages, and similar accommodation owned by a private company and provided solely for students. (University-owned student houses that were difficult to identify and not clearly located with other student residences are treated as households, and houses rented to students by private landlords are also treated as households.) Accommodation available only to students may include a small number of care-taking or maintenance staff, or academic staff.\n\u2022 Accommodation available only to nurses. This includes cluster flats and similar accommodation, provided solely for nurses. Nurses\u2019 accommodation on a hospital site that does not also contain patients is treated as a separate communal establishment from the hospital (and not categorised as a hospital), so that nurses are treated as \u2018residents\u2019 and not \u2018resident staff\u2019 or \u2018patients\u2019. This ensures consistency with similar nurses\u2019 accommodation not on a hospital site.", "name": "Communal establishment type", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether multiple generations live together in the household", "name": "Multiple generations in household indicator", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This is a person\u2019s current religion, or if the person does not have a religion, 'no religion'.\u00a0 No determination is made about whether a person was a practicing member of a religion.\u00a0 Unlike other census questions where missing answers are imputed, this question was voluntary, and where no answer was provided the response is categorised as 'not stated'.", "name": "Religion (grouped)", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Deaf or partially hearing impared", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "A person's occupation relates to their main job and is derived from either their job title or details of the activities involved in their job. This is used to assign responses to an occupation code based on the Standard Occupational Classification 2010 (SOC2010).", "name": "Occupation", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Mental health condition", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "LANGPRF refers to how proficient people are in spoken English. People are asked to self-assess how well they can speak English and choose from the options 'Very well', 'Well', 'Not well' and 'Not at all'.", "name": "Language proficiency, spoken English", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Physical disability", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Unemployment history defines the year that a person last worked. People in full-time and part-time employment are not counted in this variable.", "name": "Unemployment history", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Economic activity relates to whether or not a person aged 16 and over was working or looking for work in the week before census. Rather than a simple indicator of whether or not someone was currently in employment, it provides a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market.\nA person's economic activity is derived from their 'activity last week'. This is an indicator of their status or availability for employment - whether employed, unemployed, or their status if not employed and not seeking employment. Additional information included in the economic activity classification is also derived from information about the number of hours a person works and their type of employment - whether employed or self-employed.\nThe census concept of economic activity is compatible with the standard for economic status defined by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). It is one of a number of definitions used internationally to produce accurate and comparable statistics on employment, unemployment and economic status.", "name": "Economic activity", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Other condition", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "A person is a provider of unpaid care if they look after or give help or support to family members, friends or neighbours because of long-term physical or mental ill health or disability, or problems related to old age. This does not include any activities as part of paid employment.\nEconomic activity relates to whether or not a person aged 16 or over was working or looking for work in the week before census. Rather than a simple indicator of whether or not someone was currently in employment, it provides a measure of whether or not a person was an active participant in the labour market.", "name": "Carers in household with economic activity", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "A long-term health problem or disability that limits a person\u2019s day-to-day activity, and has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months. This includes problems that are related to old age. People were asked to assess whether their daily activities were limited a lot or a little by such a health problem, or whether their daily activities were not limited at all.", "name": "Long-term health problem or disability", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Developmental Disorder", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The distance a person travels between their home (enumeration) address and the address they travel to for their main job or course of study (including school).", "name": "Distance travelled to work or place of study", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Long-term illness, disease or condition", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Datazone of the workplace or educational establishment", "name": "Workplace datazone", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification (NS-SeC) provides an indication of socio-economic position based on occupation. It is an Office for National Statistics standard classification.\nTo assign a person aged 16 and over to an NS-SeC category, their occupation title is combined with information about their employment status, whether they are employed or self-employed, and whether or not they supervise other employees. Full-time students are recorded in the \u2018full-time students' category regardless of whether they are economically active or not.\nAlthough all people aged 16 and over are assigned to a NS-SeC category, statistical outputs for this variable are generally based on the 16 to 74 years old population due to statistical disclosure control considerations.\nThe rebased version of NS-SeC used in census results uses occupation coded to SOC2010. Information about the classification is available: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/classifications/current-standard-classifications/soc2010/index.html. In 2011 Census results, because the census did not ask a question about the number of employees at a person's workplace, the reduced method of deriving NS-SeC (which does not require this information) is used.\nThe concept of a Household Reference Person (HRP) was introduced in the 2001 Census (in common with other government surveys in 2001/2) to replace the traditional concept of the 'head of the household'. HRPs provide an individual person within a household to act as a reference point for producing further derived statistics and for characterising a whole household according to characteristics of the chosen reference person.", "name": "NS-SeC of household Reference Person", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "A long-term health problem or disability is one that limits a person's day-to-day activities and has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months. This includes problems that are related to old age. People were asked to assess whether their daily activities were limited a lot or a little by such a health problem, or whether their daily activities were not limited at all.", "name": "People limited by a long-term health problem or disability, number in household", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable indicates whether or not an individual has identified themselves as having a long term health condition which has lasted or is expected to last at least 12 months.", "name": "Nature of health condition: Learning Difficulty", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation deciles", "name": "Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "Datazone of the home", "name": "Homeplace datazone", "type": "PrimitiveType"}, {"id": "", "description": "This variable classifies the number of people in a household with a long-term health problem or disability by age and whether they or another person in the household is a carer.\nA limiting long-term health problem or disability is one that limits a person's day-to-day activities and has lasted, or is expected to last, at least 12 months. This includes problems that are related to old age. People were asked to assess whether their daily activities were limited a lot or a little by such a health problem, or whether their daily activities were not limited at all.\nA person is a provider of unpaid care if they look after or give help or support to family members, friends, neighbours because of long-term physical or mental ill health or disability, or problems related to old age. This does not include any activities as part of paid employment. No distinction is made about whether any care that a person provides is within their own household or outside the household, so no explicit link can be made about whether the care provided is for a person within the household who has poor general health or a long-term health problem or disability.", "name": "Persons with a limiting long-term health problem or disability in a household with age", "type": "PrimitiveType"}]}]
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    The 2011 Census extract for COVID-19 research does not include wholly imputed persons, late returns, duplicate persons, and termind=2 observations. Termind=2 observations are those students who have an alternative term-time address. This process avoids double counting students, keeping only the records associated with their primary term-time address. STATS PBPP approval is required as well as health and social-care PBPP. Application form available from statistics.enquiries@gov.scot or your eDRIS research co-ordinator.
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    2011-03-27
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