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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?
OAs/SOAs
Posted by Phil Smith (not verified) on 01/12/2006 - 14:25
Understand the need for a consistent geography, but I've never found OAs/SOAs very useful. Normally my clients want to put a name to a location, so wards are much better, even if its simply area n in ward x.
I though OAs and SOAs were are move towards PostCode geography? Given that most people using GIS will have PostCode Admin Boundary converters, why not accept PostCodes as inevitable?