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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.
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- The consultation has now closed .........
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- Health data? Ethnicity data? Do we need bigger areas?
- Consultation document
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Re - Fit for purpose
Posted by Nick Stripe on 19/01/2007 - 12:29
Thanks for your thoughts Richard. I'll just quickly clarify thinking on handling OA change under the stable option:
- where OAs become too small they will simply be amalgamated with a neighbour, not split between several;
- where OAs become too large, they will be split within their existing boundary;
- if two neighbouring OAs grow, but neither grow sufficiently to split, they will not be.
We will be working within a preferred OA size range. The average size of OAs is likely to increase, but only slightly. The tightness of the grouping around this mean size is likely to become slightly less pronounced as well.