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General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Census Division:...
Catalogue reference: RG 66
What's it about?
RG 66
Census process plans are complete sets of instructions and papers relating to the productions of census results. Process plans are produced for each census, and though they vary in format, they generally cover the same subject areas. These...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
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RG 66
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office and Office of Population Censuses and Surveys: Census Division: Census Process Plans
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Date (When the record was created)
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1966-1981
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Description (What the record is about)
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Census process plans are complete sets of instructions and papers relating to the productions of census results. Process plans are produced for each census, and though they vary in format, they generally cover the same subject areas. These subject areas are: census documents (regulations, orders, specimen schedules); field planning (instructions to field staff); clerical processing (coding, quality control, processing system and flowchart, editing system); data preparation (keying instructions); computer processing (description of computer systems); glossary (source for definitions, universes); data input (processing and sample edits); data files (specifications); data stream processing (lists of files); tabulation processing (design, specification and acceptance); follow up surveys (quality checks); reports on processing work (100% and 10% processing, table acceptance).
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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Arrangement
The census process plan is arranged in volumes to facilitate ease of reference and handling.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- General Register Office, Census Division, 1836-1970
- Office of Population Censuses and Surveys, Census Division, 1970-1996
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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72 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
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Subject to 30 year closure unless otherwise stated
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Subjects (Categories and themes found in our collection (our subject list is under development, and some records may have no subjects or fewer than expected))
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Census Division maintained a master copy of the process plan, maintained the index, prepared and distributed new papers issued, papers deleted or replaced and amendments to papers, and arranged for the reproduction and distribution of the census plan.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C13391/
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