About the census : Census 2021 outputs consultation

The Census 2021 outputs consultation is now closed. It ran from 13 July 2021 until 5 October 2021. This public consultation was to share our proposals at the Office for National Statistics (ONS) for Census 2021 outputs, for England and Wales. It covered our proposals for what we planned to include in our Census 2021 data products and analysis, as well as the different phases of the Census 2021 outputs release schedule (opens in a new tab) .

The feedback from the consultation helps us consider new and emerging user needs for Census 2021 data when developing our products and analysis.

Consultation results

We published our response to the consultation feedback (opens in a new tab)  in two parts.

On 16 December 2021, we published part one of our response to the consultation. This first response was to the user feedback on our proposals for phase one of the Census 2021 outputs release schedule.

On 31 March 2022, we published part two of our response. This response was to the user feedback on our proposals for phase two, phase three, and beyond 2023 of the Census 2021 outputs release schedule.

Find out more

For more information about the consultation, visit Citizen Space (opens in a new tab) , which is the ONS's consultation platform.