The Methodology for Achieving a One Number Census in 2001 in Scotland

This text borrows extensively from a paper written by Marie Cruddas for the UKCC. Likewise, much of the ONC development work, though not explicitly stated, has been carried out by Ian Diamond and his colleagues at Southampton University and by Marie Cruddas, Owen Abbott and Jennet Woolford at ONS. GROS also acknowledges the statistical advice received from St Andrews University. The development of the Census Coverage Survey (CCS) for Scotland has been carried out at GROS, along with the simulations and selection of the GROS sample. The Scottish CCS has been run as a separate project from the England and Wales and Northern Ireland surveys due to the separate Census geography data availability and differences in the physical and social geography of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales. The methodology, to use the CCS and the Census to estimate the One Number Census population for the countries of the UK, has been developed in an UK-wide project.