Dates of UK Censuses
| Year | Date | Notes | New questions asked |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1801 | 10 March | Details collected were mainly head-counts, with few still existing. | |
| 1811 | 27 May | ||
| 1821 | 28 May | ||
| 1831 | 30 May | ||
| 1841 | 6 June | Name. Age (for those over 15, this was supposed to be rounded down to the nearest 5 years, though this instruction was not obeyed in all cases). Occupation. Whether born "in county" (i. e. the same as where currently living), elsewhere in the UK, or in "Foreign Parts". | |
| 1851 | 30 March | Relation to head of the household. Marital status. Place of birth. Whether blind, deaf or dumb. Language spoken (Ireland ). Rounding down of ages dropped. | |
| 1861 | 7 April | ||
| 1871 | 2 April | Economic status. Whether an imbecile, idiot or lunatic (note that such usage of terms predates euphemistic definitions; see euphemism treadmill). | |
| 1881 | 3 April | Language spoken (in Scotland ). | |
| 1891 | 5 April | Language spoken (in Wales). Whether an employer, an employee, or neither. Number of rooms occupied, if fewer than 5. | |
| 1901 | 31 March | Number of rooms in dwelling. Whether an employer, worker or working on one's own account. Whether working at home or not. Language spoken (children under 3 years of age excluded) (in Wales). | |
| 1911 | 2 April | Industry or service with which the worker is connected. How long the couple has been married. How many children were born alive, how many who are still alive, and how many who have died. | |
| 1921 | 19 June | Place of work and industry Whether a marriage has been dissolved by divorce. | |
| 1931 | 26 April | England and Wales - destroyed in 1942 fire; Northern Ireland - no census. | Place of usual residence |
| 1939 | 29 September | National Registration Act 1939. No census in 1941 due to the Second World War. | |
| 1951 | 8 April | Household amenities. | |
| 1961 | 23 April | Qualifications, migration, household tenure. | |
| 1966 | 24 April | Long-form/short-form census, trialling an alternative method of enumeration. | Car ownership, method of travel to work. |
| 1971 | 25 April | ||
| 1981 | 5 April | ||
| 1991 | 21 April | Ethnic group, long-term limiting illness, central heating, term-time address of students. | |
| 2001 | 29 April | Size of workforce, supervisor status, first question on religion on the main census form (England, Wales, and Scotland). | |
| 2011 | 27 March | An option to complete the form online. Also provided English, Northern Irish, Scottish, Welsh and British national identity option following criticism that English and Welsh were absent from 2001. | Includes questions relevant to civil partnerships. Other new questions involve asking migrants their date of arrival and how long they intend to stay in the UK; respondents also required to disclose which passports they held. A rehearsal census was conducted on 11 October 2009. |
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