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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?
Use of ward based geog
Posted by Steven Ward (not verified) on 09/02/2007 - 14:45
For those working in local authorities and PCTs, wards will never go away as long as local councillors are elected to represent them!
Wards carry on being important because the people within them matter to the councillors. Unless people are elected to represent MSOAs, then MSOAs won't replace wards.
Changes in wards over time do create problems for analysis, but at a local level you just have to find ways round that - being proactive and trying to influence those changing their wards to do so in OA sized "chunks" helps. Statistics for "standard" wards were helpful too.