2018 Census: Changes and how they might affect data

2018 Census: Changes and how they might affect the data describes the changes made to content and operational processes of the 2018 Census of Population and Dwellings to better reflect the needs of customers, and how these changes might affect the comparability of the data over time.

The changes relate to the classifications, imputation, and questionnaire design; the way the data is processed, variable by variable; and the predicted impacts on the data. Where relevant, we include changes due to actual changes in the population ('real-word changes'). The new model we employed in the 2018 Census to better reflect the needs of customers has resulted in changes that may impact on the comparability of the data over time. We outline the anticipated impacts in this report.

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