The census agencies are confident that, due to a move to prioritise people completing their forms online, data collection will not be largely affected by the virus. The agencies will also continue to use Covid-safe face-to-face means for reaching harder-to-reach populations and to encourage those who have not completed their census israel rcs data return to do so.
Inevitably however, the Covid-19 pandemic will have impacts on the three UK censuses, starting with the rescheduling of the Scotland census to 2022. There will be interesting challenges going forward to identify methodologies for reconciling the differences a year may make to data on both sides of the border.
For instance, where people commute between England and Scotland or move residence between the two countries, new approaches may be needed to reconcile elements of the data between the Scotland, and England & Wales censuses.