The 2021 Census, the pandemic
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 6:09 am
Oliver Duke-WilliamsIn part one of this blog series looking at the travel to work data from the 2021 Census, Dr Oliver Duke-Williams, the UK Data Service Director for Census, looked at some of the interesting findings in the data. In this second and final part, he looks at what the future might hold, and discusses the impact of the Scottish singapore rcs data census taking place in 2022, and how we can use this offset as a natural experiment.
What might the future hold?
Ordinarily, the second most common mode of travel is about what people use other than driving cars, and can be useful for considering the potential and practicality of schemes to reduce car usage. This is complicated in the 2021 results by co-dominance of working from home. We could ask the question of how long lasting this apparent switch to working from home will be? Is it a pandemic response that will revert to previous levels over time, or does it represent a paradigmatic shift? It’s useful to remember the context.
At the time the country was in under pandemic restrictions, and many were working from home in a way that they had not done before.
What might the future hold?
Ordinarily, the second most common mode of travel is about what people use other than driving cars, and can be useful for considering the potential and practicality of schemes to reduce car usage. This is complicated in the 2021 results by co-dominance of working from home. We could ask the question of how long lasting this apparent switch to working from home will be? Is it a pandemic response that will revert to previous levels over time, or does it represent a paradigmatic shift? It’s useful to remember the context.
At the time the country was in under pandemic restrictions, and many were working from home in a way that they had not done before.