ONS plan to scrap traditional census and replace it with... mobile phone data
Census in 2021 will go ahead, as usual, but mobile-phone data method could be implemented by 2023

Expect less of this in the future if ONS mobile-phone data plans are approved
The Office of National Statistics (ONS) has been piloting an alternative to the traditional census that would see it rely more heavily on mobile phone data instead. It follows tests with data from Vodafone...
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