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Glossary
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These definitions that are used in Colchester Counts Interactive are provided by the Office for National Statistics and are used in conjunction with Colchester Counts Interactive. Definitions are listed in alphabetical order.
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Age
Age is derived from the date of birth question in the 2001 Census and is the age at a person’s last birthday.
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Amenities
Amenities include central heating, bath/shower and toilet.
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Dependent Child
A dependent child is a person aged 0 to 15 in a household (whether or not in a family) or aged 16 to 18 in full-time education and living in a family with his or her parent(s). An adult in a household is any person who is not a dependent child.
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Economic Activity
The Economic Activity questions in the Census only apply to those aged between 16 and 74. They relate to whether or not a person was working or looking for work in the week before Census.
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Economically Active
All people who were working in the week before the Census are described as economically active. In addition, the category includes all those who were not working but were looking for work and were available to start work within 2 weeks. Full-time students who are economically active are included but are identified separately in the classification.
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Economically Inactive
Specific categories of Economic Inactivity are: Retired, Student (excludes those students who were working or in some other way were economically active), Looking after family/home, Permanently sick/disabled and Other. A person who is looking for work but is not available to start work within 2 weeks is counted as Economically Inactive.
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Employed
Any person who did paid work in the week before the Census, whether as an employee or self-employed, is described as employed or in employment. ‘Paid work’ includes casual or temporary work, even if only for one hour; being on a government-sponsored training scheme; being away from a job/business ill, on maternity leave, on holiday or temporarily laid off; or doing paid or unpaid work for their own or family business.
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Ethnic Group
The Ethnic Group question records each person’s ethnic group as perceived by the individual themselves.
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Full-time student
A full-time student is a person of any age who has indicated that they are a schoolchild or student in full-time education.
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Full-time working
Working full-time is defined as working 31 hours or more a week.
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General Health
A self-assessment of a person’s general health over the 12 months before the Census.
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Household
A household comprises one person living alone, or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address with common housekeeping – that is sharing either a living room or sitting room, or at least one meal a day.
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Industry
The industry in which a person works is determined by the responses to the question asking for a description of the business of the person’s employer (or own business if self-employed). The responses are coded to a modified version of the UK Standard Industrial Classification of Economic Activities 1992 – UK SIC (92). Available from www.statistics.gov.uk
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Limiting Long-term Illness
A self assessment of whether or not a person has a limiting long-term illness, health problem or disability which limits their daily activities or the work they can do, including problems that are due to old age.
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Lone Parent Family
Usually, a lone parent family is a father or mother with his or her child(ren) where the parent does not have a spouse or partner in the household and the child(ren) do not have a spouse, partner or child in the household. It also includes a lone grandparent with his or her grandchild(ren) where there are no children in the intervening generation in the household. (There is no age limit on the term child).
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Occupancy rating of –1 or less
The occupancy rating provides a measure of under-occupancy and overcrowding. For example; a value of -1 implies that there is one room too few and that there is overcrowding in the household. The occupancy rating assumes that every household; including one person households; requires a minimum of two common rooms (excluding bathrooms).
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Owned
This includes accommodation that is either owned outright, owned with a mortgage or loan, or shared ownership (paying part rent and part mortgage).
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Permanently sick/disabled
This is a sub-category of 'economically inactive.' There is no direct connection with limiting long-term illness. See also Economically inactive, Limiting Long-term illness.
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Population Base
The 2001 Census has been conducted on a resident basis. This means the statistics relate to where people usually live, as opposed to where they are on Census night. Students and schoolchildren studying away from the family home are counted as resident at their term-time address. Residents away from home on Census night were required to be included on the Census form at their usual/resident address. Wholly absent households were legally required to complete a Census form on their return.
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Population Density
Number of residents per square kilometre.
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Social Rented
This includes accommodation that is rented from a council (Local Authority) or a Housing Association, Housing Co-operative, Charitable Trust, Non-profit housing company or Registered Social Landlord.
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Tenure
The tenure of a household is derived from the response to the question asking whether the household owns or rents its accommodation and, if rented, from the response to the question asking who is the landlord.
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Unemployed
A person is defined as unemployed if he or she is not in employment, is available to start work in the next 2 weeks and has either looked for work in the last 4 weeks or is waiting to start a new job.
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This data is Crown Copyright and may only be reproduced in public or published documents with the permission of HMSO and acknowledgement of the Source (Office for National Statistics, 2002). Colchester Borough Council holds a Click-use License permitting reproduction (these can be obtained free from www.clickanduse.hmso.gov.uk.)
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