Glossary

Accessibility standards

Adult

Adult (alternative classification)

Adult lifestage

Age

Age and sex distribution

Age-specific fertility rates

Ageing population

Baby boom

Birth rate

Boarding school

British Sign Language (BSL)

Census

Census Coverage Survey (CCS)

Census Day

Census declaration

Census Quality Survey (CQS)

Census questionnaire (2011)

Census taker (enumerator)

Central heating

Characteristics

Child

Child (Alternative definition)

Civil partnership

Coding

Cohabiting

Cohabiting couple family

Cohabiting couple household

Communal Establishment

Communal establishment resident

Comparator data

Confidence Intervals

Council area (local authority)

Coverage adjustment/estimation/Coverage Assessment and Adjustment (CAA)

Coverage matching process

Data

Day-to-day activities

Demography

Dependency/Dependency ratio

Dependent child

Downstream processing

Dual system estimation (DSE)

Edit and imputation

Employee

Enumerator (census taker)

Family

Family Reference Person

Foreign qualifications

Four-in-a-block (4-in-a-block)

Freelance

Household

Household Questionnaire

Household Reference Person

Household resident

Householder or joint householder

Housing Association

Individual Questionnaire

Landlord

Local Authority

Main job

Maisonette

National identity

NHS

Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA)

Office for National Statistics (ONS)

Outputs

Post-graduate study

Processing

Public services

Registrar General for Scotland

Scots

Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Government

Scottish Parliament

Sheltered accommodation

Snapshot

Statistical disclosure control

Statistics

Statutory Off Road Notification (SORN)

Student

Term-time

United Kingdom (UK)

Usual residence