The data in Figure 1 relates to all cases captured on CID from 2001-2010 by “flavour”.68 This
demonstrates there were 3,694 case records on CID in the categories of “Stateless Article 1,
1954 Convention”, “Officially stateless” and “Stateless” categories. There were 8,518 case
records falling into the “Nationality unknown” and “Unspecified nationality” groupings. The
categories of “Stateless” and “Officially stateless” appear to be rarely used, and are therefore
omitted from the graph. Figure 1 demonstrates that GCID is the most common CID “flavour”
for where the population under study is represented, with ACID the least common.
Figure 2: Case records on CID by relevant nationality categories and by year (2001-2010)
800
700
Number of cases
600
Stateless Person
(Article 1 of
1954 Convention)
500
400
Nationality Currently
Unknown
300
Unspecified Nationality
200
100
0
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Source: Management information request CPO11-1085 received 29 July 2011 from UKBA
performance services team. Please note the figures quoted are not provided under National
Statistics protocols and have been derived from local management information and are
therefore provisional and subject to change.
Figure 3: Age distribution in relevant categories recorded on CID (2001-2010)
Age
Percentage of caseload
0-9
15%
10-18
11%
19-35
52%
Over 35
22%
Figure 2 indicates an increase over time in case files relating to the category “Stateless Person
(Article 1 of the 1954 Convention)”. The male to female ratio in all categories of case files is 2:1,
with 4,188 case files relating to females and to 7,695 relating to males. The age range within
the total relevant caseload is found in Figure 3. However, the data on the overall numbers of
stateless persons on the CID reveals that the numbers of persons being identified as stateless
within the last 10 years is very low.
68
See section 3.2 for an explanation of the CID “flavours”.
in the United Kingdom
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