Census microdata activity - R code

Author

UK Data Service

Published

February 2026

Introduction

Welcome to the census microdata activity - R code. This page provides the R code used in the module activity.

What you will find in this page

An introduction to the census microdata activity
A chapter containing the full R code used for analysis

Requirements

To use the code in this page, you will need:

R and RStudio installed on your computer
The required R packages installed
Download the teaching dataset: 2021 census microdata open access, England and Wales

Data access and file location

In this code, the dataset is referenced using the following relative path: data/publicmicrodatateachingsample.sav

Please, update this file path in your code accordingly so that R can locate the dataset file on your computer.

How to use this page

Navigate to Chapter 1 to view the complete R script. At this stage, the code is displayed for reference and can be copied but does not run within the page.