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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?
Wards Phased out
Posted by Roy Beiley (not verified) on 30/01/2007 - 10:09
Wards are created in order to provide a framework for lcoal democratic purposes. They were then used traditionally as the basis for compliling "local" statistics sub-Borough/District level.
ONS promised us more reliable and comparative data at neighbourhood level through the introduction of MLSOAs and LLSOA's. In Great Yarmouth, as an NRF receiving area, we were persuaded to change all our original baseline data in the Local Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy from Ward level to the new SOA geography. Where data is available at LLSOA level it is much more useful in that it can be used for a very small "hotspot" or else aggregated up to MLSOA which, in our area, corresponds in most cases to the 2003 Ward Boundaries.
We rarely use ward data anymore other than when it is not available at SOA level.