BY now most households in Scotland will have completed the 2022 census. Delayed for a year by the Covid pandemic, the latest edition of the decadal survey of Scotland’s population will provide national government, local authorities, public service providers, sociologists and, eventually, historians with a wealth of demographic information.
Like the population itself, the census changes over time. For instance, this year’s survey carried, for the first time, a voluntary question about one’s gender identity (a fact that led to consternation among some opponents of the Gender Recognition Act).
