UK Censuses 1991-2022

Policy Changes

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.22.2025.97.09

Słowa kluczowe:

Census policies, United Kingdom, identity politics, ethnicity, religion

Abstrakt

The aim of the paper is to look into the processes of organizing censuses and to analyze them as a form of public policy reflecting but also shaping social relations. The paper acknowledges the challenges inherent in the running of censuses at the decentralized level and administered by different institutions. The content analysis of the census forms is used to track the changes introduced within the last decades and differences between censuses across the United Kingdom. The changes in the census questionnaires are presented as affected by external, sociodemographic factors, concurrent legislation, and political considerations.

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Biogram autora

  • Małgorzata Kułakowska - Uniwersytet Jagielloński

    An assistant professor at the Institute of Political Science and International Relations of the Jagiellonian University. An author of several works devoted to British politics, multiculturalism, migration, and research methodology, as well as a monograph on the community cohesion project in the United Kingdom. An Editorial Assistant of the academic journal „Teoria Polityki”. 

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Opublikowane

03-09-2025

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“UK Censuses 1991-2022: Policy Changes”. 2025. Politeja 22 (3(97): 183-99. https://doi.org/10.12797/Politeja.22.2025.97.09.

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