Press Coverage
- March 2, 2011
Daily Mail - “Could 2011 see the last-ever census? Supermarket loyalty cards may be used instead”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1362046/Could-2011-census-Supermarket-loyalty-cards-used-instead.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
- March 2, 2011
Marketing Magazine - “Census: marketing tool or obsolete?”
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/bulletin/dailynews/article/1057539/?DCMP=EMC-BreakingnewsfromMarketing
- March 2, 2011
Marketing Magazine - “Government targets UK brands in quest for census data” (front page lead story in the printed edition)
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/News/MostEmailed/1057488/Government-targets-UK-brands-quest-census-data/
- July 12, 2010
"National Census to be axed after 200 years" – Daily Telegraph – DUG's letter published
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/7884088/Reducing-our-Armed-Forces-will-leave-Britain-dangerously-reliant-on-our-allies.html
- June 8, 2010
Independent newspaper – The real cost of a compromised census will be inaccurate data – DUG's views quoted
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/nigel-hawkes-the-real-cost-of-a-compromised-census-will-be-inaccurate-data-1992013.html
- February 1, 2010
Evening Standard reports DUG evidence at House of Commons Committee
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23801132-lack-of-data-on-londoners-is-harming-investment.do
- December 31, 2009
Letter in the Daily Telegraph - "Liberating Royal Mail data will generate tax revenues"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6901342/A-different-American-election-result-in-2000-would-have-changed-everything.html & scroll down to the letter.
- June 14th, 2005 - FT - Declare an end to the data wars
- April 14th, 2005 - The Guardian - Untenable stance
- October 9th, 2003 - FT - Companies will hail expansion of ONS local data
- May 29th, 2003 - FT - Chance for government agencies to distribute their data freely
- January 10th, 2003 - FT - Local Census-users have faith in the new counts & 'Making census of the numbers' article
- June 6th, 2002 - FT - Value of census data to decision-makers