The report Key Statistics for local authorities in England and Wales contains data for England and Wales, England, Wales, and all Government Office Regions, counties, Unitary Authorities, National Parks, and local authorities in England and Wales.

The bilingual report Key Statistics for local authorities in Wales contains data for Wales as a whole and all Unitary Authorities in Wales.

The printed reports, which were laid before Parliament, contain data mainly in percentages with appropriate denominators. In addition a CD is also available which contains software to view and manipulate electronic versions of the tables with data as counts.

The Key Statistics tables
The Key Statistics dataset consists of a series of 33 tables which provide a summary of the complete results of the Census. They are designed to enable easy comparison between areas across the full range of Census variables.

Release date: 13 February 2003

Media, availability and cost:

	Online Available free through the Neighbourhood Statistics Service (NeSS) website. Printed reports available free as a series of downloadable pdf files. Commentary, and free online summary profiles for local authorities.
	In print Printed reports for England and Wales [price £75 ISBN 0 11 621643 3] and Wales [price £45 ISBN 0 11 621644 1].
	Electronic A CD containing data as percentages in HTML and as counts in SuperTABLE format on request free from Census Customer Services using the ordering information box to the top right of this page. The CD also contains the National report for England and Wales.
	A CD containing data as counts in CSV format on request free from Census Customer Services using the ordering information box to the top right of this page.

Product notes
Table 'KS15 Travel to work' in the printed report does not include figures for average distance travelled to work. This data is included on the CD.

Table 'KS24 Migration' was not available at the time the printed report was produced. The table is included on the CD, and appears in print form in the National report for England and Wales part 2.

Supporting information
The following information supporting this Census product is available:

 errata, errors and corrections identified since the product release (incorporated in the corrections for the National report for England and Wales)
 Frequently Asked Questions to help use the CDs (incorporated in the Frequently Asked Questions for the National report for England and Wales)
 data quality indicators for local authorities
 outline versions of the Key Statistics tables
 guidance on using the Neighbourhood Statistics website

Further general Census supporting information is accessible using the links in the boxes to the right.

This page last revised: 01 November 2005