Realising the Potential of Census 2021 data in Northern Ireland: Engage, Inform and Train

2021年北爱尔兰人口普查(NI)有可能识别出NI人口中许多代表性不足、弱势和弱势群体。无论是使用个别人口普查指标确定的，例如族裔指标(少数民族)、性取向指标(性少数群体)、父母状况指标(单亲父母/母亲)、照顾者指标(无偿/儿童照顾者)或十三类健康指标(例如智障、精神健康问题、轮椅使用者等群体)，这一独特的人口数据资源有可能使社会上许多最脆弱的人以某种方式和在一定程度上可见和可用，这是很少有其他数据资源能够做到的。尽管人口普查数据对有意研究弱势人口的学术研究人员具有明显的优势，但很少有人比那些倡导、支持和积极照顾这些人口的人更有资格充分利用数据的全面解释能力。NI的志愿、社区和社会企业(VCSE)部门组织处于非常有利的地位，知道应该对这些数据提出什么要求，更重要的是，可以充分发挥数据所揭示的一切潜力。目的：为了准备发布NI人口普查21年的数据，来自阿尔斯特大学、贝尔法斯特女王大学和北爱尔兰统计和研究机构的研究人员，以及NI的VCSE部门的代表，旨在开发一套专门基于NI人口普查21年的研究参与、意识、培训研讨会和资源。为了促进NI研究人员和全国VCSE组织之间有意义的合作。目标：五个工作包(WPS)将实现这一目标。在WP1中，学术小组将与选定的VCSE组织合作，演示如何使用人口普查数据来(I)确定目标人口，(Ii)描述他们的社会人口特征，(Iii)了解他们的教育/就业需求/挑战，(Iv)描述他们的(多种)发病率，(V)描述他们的家庭，以及(Vi)对他们进行地理定位。通过两个“旗舰”项目，该团队将开发专门设计的培训资源，以展示和促进更广泛的基于人口普查的研究以及全国范围内的学术-VCSE参与和合作。在WP2，该团队将邀请其他VCSE组织参加一系列的人口普查21个研究意识和参与建设研讨会，了解WP1提供的旗舰研究和相关发现。在WP3，团队将使用WP1开发的方法和分析，为UU和昆士兰大学的跨学科学者举办一系列数据/分析培训研讨会，以演示如何访问和使用NI的人口普查和其他行政数据，以产生有效的、基于人口的研究。在WP4，团队将主办一次“人口普查黑客松”，将来自WP2研讨会的VCSE代表与来自WP3的“人口普查准备”研究人员聚集在一起。最后，在WP5，该团队将评估整个计划，更新培训材料，并启动第一次NI人口普查的21个学术-VCSE合作项目申请。我们相信，这个项目将确保NI最脆弱的人能够以他们应得的方式被看到和听到，NI的VCSE部门可以变得更加自主和自给自足，在生成他们需要的证据方面，他们需要继续为我们所有人做重要的工作。

The 2021 Census in Northern Ireland (NI) has the potential to identify numerous underrepresented, vulnerable, and disadvantaged groups within the NI population. Whether identified using individual census indicators, such as, the ethnicity indicator (ethnic minorities), the sexual orientation indicator (sexual minorities), the parental status indicator (single parents/mothers), the carer indicator (unpaid/child carers), or the thirteen-category health indicator (e.g. groups such as those with an intellectual disability, a mental health problem, wheelchair users etc.), this unique population data resource has the potential to make visible, and accessible, many of society's most vulnerable, in a way and at level, that few other data resources can. While census data has obvious advantages for academic researchers interested in studying vulnerable populations, few are better placed to leverage the data's full explanatory power than those who advocate, support, and actively care for these populations. Voluntary, community and social enterprise (VCSE) sector organisations in NI are extremely well placed to know what to ask of this data and, more importantly, to realise the full potential of whatever the data reveals.Aim: In preparation for the release of the NI Census '21 data, researchers from Ulster University, Queen's University Belfast and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, and representatives from NI's VCSE sector, aim to develop a suite of research engagement, awareness, and training workshops and resources, based exclusively on the NI Census '21, in order to stimulate meaningful collaboration between NI researchers and VCSE organisations nationwide.Objectives: Five work-packages (WPs) will deliver this aim. In WP1, the academic team will partner with selected VCSE organisations to demonstrate how census data can be used to (i) identify their target populations, (ii) profile their socio-demographic characteristics, (iii) understand their educational/employment needs/challenges, (iv) profile their (multi)morbidity, (v) describe their households, and (vi) geographically locate them. Via two 'flagship' projects, the team will develop training resources specifically designed to showcase and facilitate wider census-based research and academic-VCSE engagement and collaboration nationwide. In WP2, the team will invite other VCSE organisations to a series of Census '21 research awareness and engagement building workshops informed by the flagship studies and associated findings delivered in WP1. In WP3, using the methods and analyses developed from WP1, the team will host a series of data/analysis training workshops for academics across disciplines at UU and QUB to demonstrate how census and other administrative data in NI can be accessed and used to produce impactful, population-based research. In WP4 the team will host a "Census Hackathon", bringing together VCSE representatives from workshops in WP2 with 'census-ready' researchers from WP3. Finally, in WP5, the team will evaluate the entire programme, refresh training materials, and launch the first NI Census '21 academic-VCSE partnered project applications.We believe that this project will ensure that NI's most vulnerable can be seen and heard in the way they deserve to be, and that NI's VCSE sector can become more autonomous and self-sufficient in generating the evidence they need to continue the important work that they do for us all.