2011 Census For Scotland
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 |
Website | , |
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.
Read more about this topic: United Kingdom Census 2011
Famous quotes containing the word scotland:
“Four and twenty at her back
And they were a clad out in green;
Tho the King of Scotland had been there
The warst o them might hae been his Queen.
On we lap and awa we rade
Till we cam to yon bonny ha
Whare the roof was o the beaten gold
And the floor was o the cristal a.”
—Unknown. The Wee Wee Man (l. 2128)