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The article reports on the proposal of Great Britain's Statistics Authority for the Census in Wales and England in March 2011. The proposal will be presented to the Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales in a Government White Paper on December 11, 2009. The content of the Census 2011 has been driven primarily by the requirements and demands of the wide range Census users and the evaluation of the 2001 Census. It cites several proposed questions for the 2011 Census including religion, language and general health.

The article offers information on the "Beyond 2011" program of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in Great Britain. It notes that the program considers methods ranging from traditional census to techniques which depend upon reusing information that is already collected from the public. It states that the Statistics Authority and the Parliament will release the reports of Beyond 2011. It mentions that the program will combine public records and surveys.

Information on an opening meeting held at the Royal Statistical Society in Great Britain on April 22, 2009 is presented. The meeting discussed several topics including internal migration, the measurement of immigration and the difficulty experienced by academics in accessing micro-data on immigration for research. The article reveals that all aspects of the discussions will be used by the Statistics Authority in preparing its final report on migration statistics.

The article reports on the assessments of multiple deprivation indices conducted by the Statistics Authority in Great Britain. The indices include the Code of Practice for Official Statistics of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation and the Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure. The goal of the assessments is outlined which aims to determine the compliance of the statistics with the Code.

The article reports that the Statistics Authority is working on a monitoring review entitled "Strengthening the User Voice," which is chaired by Professor Sir Roger Jowell in Great Britain.