The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published interactive charts revealing the insights it has gained from the newly digitised 1921 census.
The 1921 census for England and Wales, which contains). The ONS’s analysis of the data from the census reveals the impact of the First World War on the population at the time. For example, just over 11 per cent of all females aged 15 and over in 1921 were widows, compared with 10 per cent in 1911. This was probably connected to women losing their husbands in the First World War and the Spanish flu pandemic, as shown by the fact that there was a larger increase in widows among women aged between 25 and 34 years old. The figure was 3.2 per cent in 1921 compared with 1.3 per cent in 1911. The census was also the first to ask respondents if they were divorced. However, just 0.06 per cent of people aged over 15 said that they were. You can explore interactive graphs and maps of the data, which have been divided by county or district, on the ONS’s website at .
