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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?
Timer series and geography
Posted by Jayne Mills (not verified) on 23/01/2007 - 16:41
We cannot fall in into the trap of thinking that as long as we keep geographies stable then time series analysis between censues is straight forward. Definitional changes, changing census categories, census undercounting, etc etc will make comparisons difficult/flawed.
OAs are the building blocks and so should reflect the current situation on the ground if they are to be useful. Ideally LSOAs should remain stable. Still need ward data for all the reasons outlined earlier.