National Census 2001
Yesterday the National Census announced that over 900,000 young men have left the country over the last ten years, hows that for a national vote of No Confidence!
Discuss and forward. from Matt: matt@msp-uk.org
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Personally, I think I can account for a few hundred thousand ……. !!
* Some will not have filled out the form, Big Brother, lack of interest etc …..
* Travellers, of various descriptions [new age, trad etc] have bugger off abroad, because of the oppression of the law, against those wishing to gather. Gathering, without a licence, being an offence in this country.
* Young, [and not so young] ‘raver types’, gone to Spain, Portugal, and many Mediterranean rim countries. Again for the ‘scene’. Enjoyed it so much, and finding ways not to come back.
* Students and qualified folks, who realise that there are few ‘proper jobs’ here, commensurate with their experience and expectations and after high standards of education.
Oh god! Why am I still here.
An Office of National Statistics (ONS) official said the overall population figure was smaller than expected because of ”the great difficulty in calculating immigration and especially numbers of people leaving the country”.
Len Cook, ONS England and Wales registrar general said the rave culture in the Mediterranean, expansion of higher education and “gap years”, and a number of other factors might have contributed to a large number of people in their 20s who have left the UK.
Office of National Statistics – Census 2001: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/
BBC UK: Census paints portrait of ageing UK: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2287650.stm
Census officials plug gap with 1m invented citizens
David Walker, Guardian Monday September 23, 2002: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,797185,00.html
‘Wanderlust’ caused dip in census results
· 1.1 million over 85 years old
· Fewer men than women over 21
· Milton Keynes is fastest growing area
Mark Oliver and agencies
Guardian. Monday September 30, 2002
Rave culture abroad and the wanderlust of 20-somethings were cited as reasons for today’s publication of census results which put Britain’s population at almost one million smaller than previous estimates.
The UK population was 58,789,194 on the day of census 2001 in April, some 900,000 fewer than had been estimated would be the case at the time of the previous census in 1991.
Census chiefs said the overall figure was smaller than expected because of “the great difficulty in calculating immigration and especially numbers of people leaving the country”.
One of the three registrars general of the census, Len Cook, who was responsible for England and Wales, said the rave culture in the Mediterranean, expansion of higher education and “gap years”, were factors in the large number of people in their twenties who have left the UK.
Mr Cook said: “There was a migration outflow of 600,000 more than we would have thought in the last 10 years … for the large part, that is explained by a unusually large number of young men in their twenties going abroad for a long time or for shorter periods.”
He said there were large numbers of jobs available for young people in other parts of the EU and Australia was a very popular place to travel to. The exodus of young men was a trend mirrored internationally, he added.
The massive survey also paints a picture of Britain’s ageing population. For the first time, there were more over-60s (21% of the total population) than there were children under 16 (20%). The number of people aged over 85 has increased more than five-fold since 1951 to 1.1 million (1.9% of the total).
There was also good news for men in the “dating game”, as it showed there are fewer men than women at all ages over 21
http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,801979,00.html
