The Local Authority Perspective

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The Local Authority Perspective 2011 Census
Outputs Evaluation Workshop 8 January 2015
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Outline

• Central Local Government Information
  Partnership
• Census Advisory Group
• What Aspects of Outputs Went Well?
• Improvements and Enhancements
• Significant Issues
• Quick Wins

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What Aspects of Outputs Went Well?

• Sound results confidence in the statistics
• Presentation of initial results
• Timetable for main outputs
• KS and UV tables
• New topics languages and bedrooms
• Statistical Disclosure Control

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What Aspects of Outputs Went Well?

• New Workplace Zone geography
• Geography 2001 to 2011 changes
• NOMIS and SASPAC
• Infographics, data visualisations social media
• User engagement

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Improvements and Enhancements

• Significant issues
• Origin/Destination Outputs
• Accessing safeguarded and secure statistics
• Timetable unclear and delayed
• No ward data
• Simple outputs

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Improvements and Enhancements

• Significant issues
• Statistical Disclosure Control
• process at the expense of outputs
• lack of clarity about outputs/table layouts
• significant delays
• inconsistent application of SDC rules
• over cautious as data already swapped and time
  lag
• However! Dont go back to pre-tabulation SDC in
  2021

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Improvements and Enhancements

• Significant issues
• Outputs consultation
• Initial consultation on tables too ambitious
• Too many detailed tables at expense of simple
  most used cross-tabulations
• Theme tables axed without consultation
• Need more consultation with users (eg CAG) during
  table development

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Improvements and Enhancements

• Quick wins
• Focus on simple cross-tabulations
• Classification of statistics eg ethnicity, travel
  to work, OD working at or from home
• Enumeration of communal establishments
• Geography coding
• Origin/Destination mis-coding issues
• NOMIS comprehensive source of census data
• User friendly interface bespoke web site for
  outputs
• Use CAG and Outputs Working Group more

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Jayne Mills Bristol City Council E
jayne.mills_at_bristol.gov.uk T 0117 903 6873