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The ONS is keen to establish a long term, small area geography policy which will be used for Census 2011 and Neighbourhood Statistics. The aim is to support the production of coherent and useful data that can be used with confidence by all organisations.
The consultation paper is available online. This describes all policy proposals, the background to them, and a number of attendant issues. Please take the time to get involved by responding to the survey and joining in the debate around the blog posts.
Latest Posts
- The consultation has now closed .........
- Consultation period ends this Friday (16th Feb)
- Do you use Output Areas?
- Don't forget the surveys
- How important are postcodes?
- Should boundaries be tied to the real world?
- Festive messages
- Health data? Ethnicity data? Do we need bigger areas?
- Consultation document
- OAs and SOAs - Stick or Twist?
Overlapping geographies
Posted by SDC (not verified) on 29/11/2006 - 15:18
I support the creation of a separate business OA geography. These should be based on a minimum number of employees and busineses within them (from 2001 Census?). They would not lead to disclosure issues because they would represent a different population - NOT residential but workplace or daytime. The problems with 2001 Census has been the failure to provide industry of employment data on workplace population at geographies less than ward AND the large workplace populations and segmented counts for some city centre/urban residential OAs.