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Focus on Wales: Its People paints a picture of the people of Wales. It includes information on their characteristics, sense of national identity, ethnic diversity and Welsh language skills, as well as looking at the Welsh-born living elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Wales is revealed as a land with a growing but ageing population, with an increasing proportion of residents coming from outside its borders. National identity is strong, and is reinforced by the increase in people able to speak the Welsh language, particularly among the young. Despite this strength of identity, Wales has an increasingly diverse mix of cultures and ethnic backgrounds, centred around Cardiff and its other major towns and cities.
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arrow Demography
Population growing and ageing
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Proportion born in Wales falling
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arrow Welsh National Identity
67% identify as Welsh
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Cardiff most diverse
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arrow Welsh Language
Welsh speakers increase to 21%
- arrow Welsh-born Living Elsewhere in the UK
Most live in England
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arrow 'Welsh' on Census Form
Written-in by 418,000
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4 in 5 of working age have a qualification
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arrow Health + Caring
23% with a disability
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Up to 1/4 in low-income households
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arrow Download Map of Wales - arrow Download Data
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arrow Download Summary
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Each overview in the Focus on series combines data from the 2001 Census and other sources to illustrate its topic, and provide links to further information. This online overview is accompanied by a full report which contains more comprehensive analysis.
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arrow Digital Age
arrow Environmental Accounts
arrow Ethnicity & Identity
arrow Families
arrow Gender
arrow Health
arrow London
arrow Older People
arrow People & Migration
arrow Religion
arrow Social Inequalities
arrow Cymru: Ei Phobl
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 Updated 8 January 2004

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