Census non-compliance query.

Our Reference: FOI01239/Mija/QE1

Dear Mija,
1. The number of people successfully prosecuted for failing to complete a
census questionnaire in the 2001 Census was 38.
This information was published in the 2001 Census General Report and also
in the 2001 Census non-compliance evaluation report both of which are
available on the website:

[1]http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/...

[2]http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/...

2. Not available. In 2001, the Census results represented 100 per cent
of the population. Total overall response was 98 per cent. This included
some 4 per cent of the population estimated to be resident in households
identified by enumerators but which, for a variety of reasons returns were
not made. Census response, that is the proportion of people included on a
census form in England and Wales, was 94 per cent.

Further information is available on the website at
[3]http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/...

3. Not available. Information on tenure status of the householder was not
collected as part of the prosecution process.

4. Yes. The statutory responsibility for making a return rests with the
householder, irrespective of to whomever the census form was addressed or
delivered.

5. The Census (England and Wales) Regulations 2000 authorised census
officers to make such enquiries as were reasonably necessary to obtain the
particulars prescribed by the Census Order to be stated in the return. In
all cases where a prosecution was considered, an Interview under Caution,
following Police and Criminal Evidence Act rules was required to be
carried out by field staff. The name of the householder was required to be
given in such interviews.

Yours sincerely
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Paul Wearn LLB (Hons)
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