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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?
Seems there are two customer groups
Posted by Clive (not verified) on 07/02/2007 - 12:42
Seems there are two sets of views here, relating to the two types of user for this data :- those that relate this data to products and services (commercial users), & those that use the data for "true" statistical/geographic reasons (Scientific & Authority users).
Each group uses the data differently, for my part things are fine as they are - any change would be "a pain" for me also, however I can see how much this change means to Di, and can appreciate the value of having an anchored geographical reference if I were sat on the other side of the fence, boundry or polygonal division.
I'm for the new system, & eager to see what extra data can be delivered, but for my level of use postodes are fine.