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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 Boundaries
Posted by Roy Beiley (not verified) on 30/01/2007 - 09:56
I think it is time to call a halt to continually reviewing whether we have right sort of geography otherwise it makes it impossible to get a valid time-series on which to review trends - crucial to those like us in Great Yarmouth who are trying to measure achievement against Floor Targets for the purposes of Neighbourhood Renewal Fund.
Ideally, neighbourhood statistics should available for "neighbourhoods" which are recognised by local communities but Lower Layer SOA areas do approximate to these closely enough to be able to measure change over time.
What I would like is for more pressure to be put on agencies to produce their data at LLSOA level instead of Wards as we we were originally led to believe would be the case when NeSS were introduced!
So please stop moving the goalposts and deliver on what was promised!