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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?
Zero population OAs
Posted by Keith Aungiers (not verified) on 15/12/2006 - 16:08
This may well be a good solution for both rural and urban tracts of land where existing OAs contain only very small populations in one corner. An example would be the OA covering most of the town moor (an extensive area of open land) near Newcastle upon Tyne city centre, an otherwise densely populated area. In defining its own 'neighbourhood' areas Newcastle city council sought to exclude such areas because of the skewing effect in terms of such things as population or household density etc. See OA 00CJFR0020. The difficulty here would be that creating zero population OAs within the existing OA geography layer would effect stability of geography. They may therefore be better as an overlay consistent with the underlying OA layer.