United Kingdom Census 2011 - 2011 Census For Scotland

2011 Census For Scotland

Census 2011
Area Scotland
Registrar Duncan Macniven
(as Registrar General, Scotland)
Census day(s) 27 March 2011
Issuing organisation GROS, now part of NRS
Data supplier CACI
Rehearsal 29 March 2009
Rehearsal Areas west Edinburgh, Lewis and Harris
Census forms Household, and others
1st release Dec 2012 - May 2013
2nd release Summer 2013
3rd release Autumn 2013
4th release Winter 2013
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In Scotland, a wholly owned subsidiary of information technology company CACI was contracted to gather information. CACI "provided interrogators who worked at Abu Ghraib prison at the height of the prisoner abuse scandal".

The 2011 Scotland Census asked 13 household questions and up to 35 questions for each individual. Plans were rehearsed in west Edinburgh, Lewis and Harris.

The 2011 census was the first to include a question asking about the ability to read, write and understand the Scots language alongside the question for ability in Scottish Gaelic and English languages.

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