Population Trends - No. 113 : Autumn 2003

he quarterly publication covers population and demographic information. It contains commentary on the latest findings, topical articles on relevant subjects such as one parent families, cohabitation, fertility differences, international demography, population estimates and projections for different groups, illustrated with colour charts and diagrams, regularly updated statistical tables and graphs, showing trends and the latest quarterly information: on conceptions, births, marriages, divorces, internal and international migration, population estimates and projections, etc This issue includes: - Looking beyond the 2001 Census: An outline of the ONS's strategic review into future methods for collecting information traditionally generated by the Census - by Peter Benton and Ian White - Key issues in the Quality Asurrance of the One Number Census: examines the analyses undertaken as part of the One Number Census project to account and adjust for under-enumeration in the 2001 Census - by Ian Diamond, Owen Abbott and Neil Jackson - Implications of 2001 Census for local authority district mid-year population estimates - analyses the difference between mid-2001 population estimates based on the 1991 and 2001 Censuses by local authority district level to assess the accuracy of population change estimates - by Jonathan Smith, Roma Chappell, Alison Whitworth and Craig Duncan - A Demographic statistics service for the 21st Century: a summary of the ONS review of the uses made of population and household data by government and the planned improvements arising from the review - by Peter J Fullerton