United Kingdom Census 1881

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The United Kingdom Census of 1881 recorded the people residing in every household on the night of 3 April 1881, [1] and was the fifth of the UK censuses to include details of household members.

Census in the United Kingdom

Coincident full censuses have taken place in the different jurisdictions of the United Kingdom every ten years since 1801, with the exceptions of 1941 and Ireland in 1921. Simultaneous censuses were taken in the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man, with the returns being archived with those of England. In addition to providing detailed information about national demographics, the results of the census play an important part in the calculation of resource allocation to regional and local service providers by the governments of both the UK and the European Union. The most recent UK census took place in 2011.

Contents

Data recorded

Details collected include: address, name, relationship to the head of the family, marital status, age at last birthday, gender, occupation, and place of birth. As with earlier censuses, the form asked whether any "lunatics", "imbeciles" or "idiots" lived in the household, causing the Registrar General to observe that: "It is against human nature to expect a mother to admit her young child to be an idiot, however much she may fear this to be true. To acknowledge the fact is to abandon all hope." [2]

Notable respondents included Winston Churchill, Karl Marx and Charles Darwin. [3]

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Release

The 1881 census was the first UK census to be made available online. [3] Initially it was transcribed by volunteers for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and made available first on CD then later online.[ when? ] Free access to the online index is now available from several sources.

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References

  1. ↑ "Census records". The National Archives. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  2. ↑ 1801-1901. Office for National Statistics. Archived by The National Archives 28 January 2016. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Pages from 1881 census go online". BBC News. 3 December 2004. Retrieved 24 November 2012.
Preceded by
1871 		UK Census
1881 		Succeeded by
1891
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