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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?
Business OAs
Posted by Hugh Neffendorf (not verified) on 30/01/2007 - 19:37
There is a disclosure issue around business (industry) counts - risk of giving info about individual firms. But I have seen many applications where some sub-OA business splits would be very useful, just giving numbers of employees in smaller areas, perhaps full and part time, so that large city centre OAs could be disaggregated and analysed for more local business activity.