Design of the 2001 and 2011 Census Coverage Surveys for England and Wales

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 881-906

  Brown, James ^a   Abbott, Owen ^b   Smith, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OFFICE FOR NATIONAL STATISTICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

2011 census; Census coverage; Sample allocation; Survey design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975688830     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2011.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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