Commercial companies in the United Kingdom are major users of Census information for targeting customers and making business decisions. Like other user communities, there are some Census specialists, but many more occasional users. Relationships between the Census Offices and their private sector customers are good, and plans for 2011 are progressing well, but much remains to be done. Potential improvements are also identified.

Paper presented at the joint UNECE/Eurostat meeting on Population and Housing Censuses, Geneva, 28-30 October 2009.