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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?
SOA Census Output
Posted by Geoff Mole (not verified) on 08/02/2007 - 10:55
I use SOA data as building blocks for gp practice data. In East London where I work ethnic data for practices is of great interest.
SOAs would have much more interest currently, if the 2001 Census had been re-analysed at this level for richer tables than OA based aggregates provide. For my work this is particularly the case in tabulation of population by age, sex, and ethnic group.
Technically the 2001 Census could be reanalysed, but at too great a cost. It would be interesting though to have an idea what the 2011 output for SOAs could be -if an SOA level of table is introduced?
This must have a big effect on how greatly we should value SOAs.