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Track the census’s fascinating, 6000-year heritage, through ancient civilisations and early Britain to the modern censuses of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Learn more about the many different pieces of the census puzzle, and how they come together to define the make up of the population.

Find out how the census works and how it helps government, local authorities and other census users to identify the needs of a diverse community.

24 August 2010