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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 important
Posted by Michelle vonAhn (not verified) on 15/02/2007 - 16:47
We use postcodes a lot as a means of linking data to geographies, but more to SOAs than to OAs. I am not particularly exercised about the prospect of OAs being re-drawn within the constituent SOA, but I would not like there to be a loss of linkage to postcode areas wherever possible.
We use the AFPD to link administrative data to SOAs for thematic mapping of summary adminstrative data. In a perfect world, the LLPG would be the ideal way of linking the data to a geography, but it is not a perfect world (yet), so we would prefer that SOAs retain a close link with postcodes. I too would advocate that OS have control over postcodes, given their essential building-block role in the creation of this statistical geography.