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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?
Re - Geography
Posted by Nick Stripe on 01/12/2006 - 15:07
Some interesting comments here. Thank you. I'll ruminate on them a bit more and may return to them. But my initial thoughts surround:
1. Emphasising our desire to assess whether there may be methods that could be employed to protect confidentiality with overlapping small area geographies for the Census.
2. Re-iterating that we need a geography that works for non Census datasets too - e.g. all the administrative datasets on Neighbourhood Stats. We don't have access to unit records for these, they arrive pre aggregated - usually to relatively large building blocks (SOAs not OAs). This brings a problem in trying to convert these data to alternative boundaries.