The other Overview Units here will give you a good introduction to the census and how to use it. The rest of the websites produced by the CHCC project are specifically designed to improve the use of contemporary and historical census data in higher education by staff and students.
We hope you will find census data more accessible and that the learning and teaching materials enhance the context, understanding and use of census data.
You can find the Census Resource Discovery System at: http://chcc.essex.ac.uk/chcc-rd/RD
The historical census learning and teaching material at: http://chcc.gla.ac.uk/ie_index.php
The contemporary census area statistics (CAS) at: http://www.chcc.ac.uk/CAS/
The contemporary anonymised records (SAR) at: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/rschproj/chcc/idagateway.htm