The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been analysing census statistics to release information across various subcategories for the country’s population based on the responses of the online census conducted in March 2021
Hindus living in the UK are among the healthiest and well qualified religious groups and Sikhs are most likely to own their homes, according to latest census data for England and Wales, reported PTI. The UK’s Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been analysing census statistics to release information across various subcategories for the country’s population based on the responses of the online census conducted in March 2021.
In its latest release entitled ‘Religion by housing, health, employment and education’ recently, the ONS found that life outcomes for religious groups varied considerably. “In 2021, those who identified as ‘Hindu’ had the highest percentage of their population reporting either ‘very good’ or ‘good’ health (87.8 per cent), compared with 82.0 per cent of the overall population,” the ONS found and added that the Hindus also reported the “lowest prevalence of disability”.
The religion question was voluntary in the census and in 2021, 94 per cent of the overall population in England and Wales of 56 million chose to answer the question. “People who identified as ‘Hindu’ had the highest percentage with a ‘Level 4 or above’ [certificate-level] qualification (54.8 per cent), compared with the overall population (33.8 per cent),” it noted.
“People who identified as ‘Sikh’ were more likely to live in households that owned their home… 77.7 per cent of those who identified as ‘Sikh’ lived in households that owned their home,” the ONS said.
The ONS said that many of the life outcomes discussed in its analysis could have been influenced by the differing age and sex profiles of religious groups. “In 2021, people who identified as ‘Muslim’ were nearly four times more likely to live in overcrowded homes than the overall population of England and Wales,” the statistics showed. “In 2021, people who identified as ‘Muslim’ had the lowest percentage of people aged 16 to 64 years in employment (51.4 per cent compared with 70.9 per cent of the overall population); this resulted from the high percentages of people who were students or looking after home or family in this group,” it said.
The 2021 census survey was filled out by more than 24 million households across England and Wales and data from the survey was being published in stages by the ONS since then.
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