Ebook: Population density, change and concentration in Great Britain 1971, 1981 and 1991

London : HMSO, 1995. — 61 p. — (Studies on medical and population subjects, No. 58).The purpose of this study is to describe how the local areas in which people live in Britain have changed over the last two decades in the most simple way – through their population density. This has been done for a number of reasons. Firstly, basic changes in the distribution of the population are of interest to researchers ranging from those who study the spread of diseases to those who
speculate about future property prices. Secondly, this study provides a simple illustration of how characteristics of the population can be compared over time and across many small areas in Britain using new mapping and statistical techniques. Thirdly, the study introduces a derived dataset which makes local change over time analysis possible by combining data from the 1971, 1981 and 1991 Censuses of Population for the same large set of small areas.
This study builds on the work on population density and concentration by John Craig which followed the publications of the 1961, 1971 and 1981 Censuses of Population (Craig 1975, 1980, 1988). In the main, the approach developed by Craig is continued, but new methods are also introduced where they are thought to be appropriate. Here the population of all of Great Britain is considered, and enumeration district data from the 1971 and 1991 Censuses have been combined with ward level data from the 1981 Census, so that the changing population densities of people living in over ten thousand frozen areas can be compared.