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Tools for exploring UK 2011 census data from the UK Data Service

24 April 2015

Will the real Census please step forward?!

UK Data Service Census Support

census.ac.uk

Microdata

Microdata for Scotland 2011 data (i.e. Samples of Anonymised Records, SARs):

‘Teaching File’ of microdata is available, comprising anonymised 1% sample of records from Scotland

Safeguarded files (more detailed and available only via UKDS for download under special user agreement)

o Scotland level (5% sample of individuals)

o Local authority level (also 5%)

Secure files

o 10% sample, available only via UKDS under Approved Researcher Licence

http://census.ukdataservice.ac.uk/get-data/microdata/2011-micro-plans.aspx

Flow Data

Census Geography

Census Geography

Aggregate Data

The UK DataService's InFuse tool:

has aggregate data for selected variables down to local authority level

includes data from the 2011 censuses of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland

can be used to compare data from the different constituent parts of the UK.

Click here to go to InFuse

Aggregate Data

Case study: Let’s use InFuse to compare data about housing from the four

countries of the UK…

N.B. data are available in predefined combinations.

N.B. the geographies that are displayed are dependent on the categories

that you have selected.

N.B. when you select ‘All’, it provides the total for all the subcategories, not

each of the subcategories.

What questions do you have?

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