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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?
Postcodes are relevent & very useful
Posted by Clive (not verified) on 26/01/2007 - 09:22
I use the postcode fields whenever I use the ONS data - they are the best method I have to link population or household data to my customer database - eg I know how many customers I have in BD1 from a search on my database - I can compare this to the population (by segement, household etc) within the census data.
The postcode data is the only way I can do this as it is a constant geographical reference within both the census data and every address for every customer.
WIthout the postcode the greatest level of detail I could achieve would be to Town level, which would severely impair the usefullness of the census data, in relation to my industry sector