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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?
National Park Boundaries
Posted by Rachel (not verified) on 22/01/2007 - 16:37
As a National Park Authority straddling 9 Unitary Authorities, the analysis of Census Data has historically created headaches for our Development Plan team.
To date the Census has not recognised the National Park Authority as a "Local Authority". The result being that Authority wide data is not relevant to the National Park area.
Further headaches ensue with OA's which are drawn to Local Authority Areas, as we have a number communities and settlements which fall accross the Local Authority Administrative boundary.
Responses to previous consultations on the Census have drawn a blank on the grounds of problems with disclosure if smaller output areas were drawn for the areas within the National Park.
Do National Statistics have any new answers this time around?
If the output areas can't be fixed to meet our needs, are there any other solutions you, or any weblog readers can suggest?
Bearing in mind that we are a small team, in a small authority which does not have a dedicated statistics resource.