Representative
About
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?
Measuring change in social and domestic cohesion
Posted by Nick Gulliford (not verified) on 03/12/2006 - 10:41
There are 8 indicators of deprivation listed at the SEU web site and 7 indices published in the ONS neighbourhood statistics pages.
The missing indicator is 'family breakdown'.
I am not a statistician, but I should have thought that an index could be compiled for 'social and domestic cohesion' based on domestic violence, abortion, teenage pregnancies, STI's, out of wedlock births, single parents, marriage/divorce ratio, truancy, etc.
I'm interested in local community and faith leaders - GP's, school governors, parish councillors, clergy etc. - being able to measure easily whether their neighbourhoods are becoming more or less cohesive.
This would enable them to assess better whether local policies, programmes and educational courses addressing STI's, teenage pregnancy, truancy, family breakdown etc. are being effective.