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Statistical methodology

  1. Processes we use to measure and ensure the quality of our data collection and publishing.

  2. Our 3 layers of review and governance to help us make sure our methodology is sound.

  3. How we'll use latest technology to give people as much access to census data as legally possible.

  4. Details of how capture and coding helps us to understand and process census answers in a consistent way.

  5. Our process to prepare census information for other statistical processes.

  6. Our processes to iron out inconsistencies and to fill gaps in census data.

  7. The survey we run to get an estimate of how many people are missing from the census.

  8. How we estimate how many households and people are missing from the census, and adjust the census data to account for them.

  9. Our plans to use administrative data for quality assurance of the 2022 census.

  10. Processes we use to make sure personal information is removed from census data.

  11. Reports and outcomes from the 2019 census rehearsal.