Talk:Demography of England
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[edit] Religion total
I'm guessing that .07% or better yet .01% would be a more accurate number for Jedi. This way the total is 100.69 percent, which you can't have and there are more Jedi than Jews. Also, the list order is otherwise largest to smallest. I'm reluctant to change this as I don't have access to the data myself but I hope information that's clearly wrong doesn't stay up too long.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.162.208.206 (talk • contribs) .
- The issue is that Jedi is not counted and published as a 'religion' statistic. I think they are included in 'no religion'. The actual figure is 0.7%, and there are more Jedi than Jews, Sikhs, and Buddhists. -- zzuuzz (talk) 02:38, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
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- Then the given statistic for "Jedi" is unreferenced and ought not to be included. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 125.239.221.102 (talk) 23:32, 22 March 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Cornish
Why would people whose ethnicity was noted as Cornish be listed in 'white other'? Cornish are indigenous to Britain and the Cornish are a British ethnic group. 'White British' surely is any indigenous person in Great Britain of Great Britain, whether they're Scottish, Welsh, English, Cornish or Yorkshireman. I believe that the article is incorrect to distinguish Cornish as 'white other'. Being Cornish does not mean that one cannot also identify as English and certainly not British Enzedbrit 07:50, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
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- 'The Cornish were recognised by the government's ONS as an ethnic group on the 2001 Census - see Census 2001 Ethnic Codes, code 06 - but they have been invisibilised in previous censuses. They are an indigenous national minority of the United Kingdom and possessors of a recognised minority language of these islands under the Council of Europe's European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. If the UK government has made legal undertakings with the Council of Europe to take "resolute" action in support of this language, how on earth is it going to measure its compliance with international legal obligations with respect both to this language and to the people associated with it, if it does not include relevant tick boxes in forthcoming censuses ? - please see - Cornish demand 2011 Census tick box and Cornish ethnicity data from the 2001 Census 217.134.69.116 23:15, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
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- In answer to the above, I believe that the 37,000 who identified as Cornish, first had to deny being British by crossing out the British option, then write in Cornish in the "others" box. You are correct that the ONS would have merely re-categorised these people as "White British" in the published Census figures.217.134.64.161 22:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
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[edit] Name
I'm gonna rename this article to "Demographics of England". I think it's better so that we wont have to limit the info to 2001 Census...Lukas19 22:43, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Marital status
Does the census measure divorce, etc?
[edit] Removal of POV census material
Removed POV census material as external limks.
Other material removed that refers to the 'fight for this' etc etc. Very POV.
[edit] Date of the data
Presumably this is all from the 2001 Census? Can we have appropriate refs added? Paulbrock 23:32, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
[edit] map about population
In this page and in England page, the image Image:England counties population.png is included. My concern is that if extensive data (in that case the total population of a county) instead of an intensive data (like the density of population), the data is strongly influence of how big the counties are . Not surprisingly all the points in the map that are the lighter are in small counties. Then take a county that is very dark, an suppose that (for any reasons, it is just an academic intellectual experiment) tomorrow that county is divided into 100 new counties. How should the map be update? One counties very dark will became 100 counties very light. If we do not consider the borders of the counties an area of the map has became from very dark to very light, without any change in the population.
A map made this way can be useful, in my opinion, next to a table (or list) of all counties ordered by total population. But this is a thing related to the administrative subdivision of England into counties, and it is not about the population distribution.
For an analysis of the population distribution a map that display the distribution would be better. However here a new problem arise. If the density is given by one value for each county (for each county the total_county_population/total_county_area) the map will display the same value for each whole county, while the real population density could be different among carious areas in the county.
This are just my 2 cents, from someone who is not at all an expert in the filed of Demography -- AnyFile 13:01, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Merge with Population of England
This obvious merge was suggested over two years ago on the Population of England talk page. It has gone uncontested for that period of time, but no one has bothered to complete the merge.
