Enhancing and Enriching Historic Census Microdata

该提案旨在创建1961年至1981年英国人口普查的匿名记录样本（SARs），并使用国家统计局（ONS）从档案磁带中恢复的记录级数据重建2001年的SAR。ONS IT基础设施的当前变化以及当代人口普查处理的一些好处为恢复这些历史数据提供了一个独特的机会，并为分析过去50年的社会变化创造了丰富的新研究资源。从这些数据中可能揭示的见解直接涉及ESRC目前的优先事项“影响行为和提供信息的干预措施”（例如，“童年、家庭、社区和更广泛的社会的相互作用如何影响福祉方面的不平等？“）和”一个充满活力和公平的社会“（例如，我们的社会有多移动的？').关于这两个目标，ESRC明确表示要更好地利用现有数据，深化英国研究界的能力。

This proposal is for the creation of Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) from British censuses 1961 to 1981 and reconstruction of a 2001 SAR using record-level data recovered from archive tapes by the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Current changes to ONS IT infrastructure and some benefits from contemporary census processing present a unique moment of opportunity to recover these historical data and to create a rich new research resource for the analysis of social change over the last 50 years. The insights likely to be revealed from these data directly address ESRC's current priorities of 'Influencing behaviour and informing interventions' (e.g. 'How does the interplay of childhood, family, community and wider society influence inequalities in wellbeing?') and 'A vibrant and fair society' (e.g.,'How mobile is our society?'). In relation to both of these objectives ESRC has articulated a clear intention to make better use of existing data and to deepen the capacity of the UK research community.