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General Register Office: 1921 Census Plans of Division
Catalogue reference: RG 114
What's it about?
RG 114
Plans of Division are used by Census Officers (usually Local Registrars) to record how their registration sub-district would be divided up into enumeration districts for the census. In urban areas they list which streets are in which enumeration...
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- RG 114
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Title (The name of the record)
- General Register Office: 1921 Census Plans of Division
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1921
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Description (What the record is about)
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Plans of Division are used by Census Officers (usually Local Registrars) to record how their registration sub-district would be divided up into enumeration districts for the census.
In urban areas they list which streets are in which enumeration districts, and even which part of a street, or range of house numbers from a street fall into a given enumeration district.
In rural areas they indicate which hamlets and outlying farms were included in a particular enumeration district.
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Arrangement (Information about the filing sequence or logical order of the record)
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The Plans of Division books are arranged by number of registration district and number of registration sub-district.
The Plans of Division books included a reference number on the front cover in the format of Registration District/Registration Sub-district/part number (if needed), for example:
- 1/1 or 1/1/1
The covers also specified the Registration District and Registration Sub-district in full (including any parts), for example:
- 1/2/1
- Registration District - Paddington
- Registration Sub District - Padding Central
- Part 1
There are no Plans of Division books for the Isle of Man, Channel Islands or Armed Forces.
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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)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
- General Register Office, 1836-1970
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 1992 volume(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Available in digital format
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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In 2022 Office for National Statistics
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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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- Topics
- Census
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- No further accruals are anticipated.
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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 of 1921 was the first to be taken in accordance with the provisions of The Census Act 1920.
The Census Act 1920 had notable effects on future census procedures. The main effect was that subsequent censuses could begin census preparations or recruit or allocate staff without their own dedicated Act of Parliament. The Act also featured a confidentiality clause which was stricter than previous censuses.
The Plans of Division for 1921 are standard 32 page booklets which list all of the enumeration districts covered by the Census of 1921. Enumeration districts were designed so that a single enumerator could visit all the properties before census day to collect the schedules after completion.
Plans of Division helped the identification of districts for each individual volume of the census and determined how to approach spelling variations for place names or boundary anomalies. For example, the southern coast of Anglesey being included in a mainland district.
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C17480316/
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