Regional population changes over the last 100 years
Posted by Richard Slade on 25/01/2010 3 comments
To show how the population has changed over time
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This information is available on A Vision of Britain through Time for both the historical administrative units and redistricted to 2001 boundaries
http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/index.jsp
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Have you tried:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/
They might be able to get these data from the national census.
One problem though... Thanks to Royal Mail's unworthy efforts in trashing county boundaries, you might find it hard to get a data-set over a full 100 year period that has consistent geocoding (geographical mapping) throughout.
Would be interested to know how you get on.
Royal Mail has nothing
Royal Mail has nothing whatsoever to do with administrative boundaries. If it did, Middlesex would still exist as an administrative entity.
Of course there have been many changes, but look at central government for this, not Royal Mail.
I should add that it is unrealistic to expect boundaries to be preserved in aspic for the sake of consistent statistics. Hopefully for the future data will be stored with identifiers which enable data from 2011 (say) to be produced on 2031 (or 1931?) boundaries. It's a bit late (and resource intensive) to geocode data from the early 1900s.
I'd be more worried about the Small Government boys doing away with the census on the grounds that it can all be done from private sector databases -m if it can I'd be very worried about what the private sector holds about each of us.