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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?
To redraw or not to redraw?
Posted by LSC Planning Manager (not verified) on 29/11/2006 - 15:33
I think the previous comment usefully summarises the issues. Planning and monitoring change and progress year on year are difficult to carry out without fixed borders to ensure comparisons are meaningful. However, populations change anyway (regardless of the problems caused to planners thereby!)so we are never really comparing like with like in population terms, merely geographical terms - and geographical/spatial research and planning are rarely carried out without consideration of the resident population.
So I would suggest that the areas be redrawn to reflect reality, but to enable tracking, let's also have ward level data.