saspac and the census making best use of the 2011 census twri, york 5 october 2012 alan lewis saspac...
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SASPAC and the Census
Making best use of the 2011 CensusTWRI, York5 October 2012
Alan LewisSASPAC Programme Manager
Overview
1. What is SASPAC?
2. The Software
3. A ‘SASPAC User’
4. The Data
5. The Service
6. 2011 Census
What is SASPAC?
Software application to interrogate, access and manipulate Census data (a 30 year success story!)
Owned by the Local Government Association
Managed/developed on behalf of LGA and users by the Greater London Authority (GLA)
‘Non profit initiative’ - owned and managed by Public Sector
What is SASPAC?
Supporting the use of Census and small area statistics for over 30 years
Development and support is funded purely through users’ annual support fees
Used by local, central and regional government, health sector, Census Offices, academia, private sector
Peak user numbers were over 380 organisations across the UK following 2001 – growing again for 2011
Profile of a SASPAC User
A professional in an organisation
A policy analyst, technical researcher, data manager
Wanting ready access to a wide range of Census data
Needs analysis, presentation and export tools
Wanting to access support services
Part of a community of users, sharing experience and information
The Software
Software application providing tools to access all the census data and geography
Hosted on the Desktop, network or thin-client; later on Web sources
Distributed with all the historical data and new data as it becomes available
Organisation-wide licence approach, so as many users as required at one site
Features
Rich metadata browse/searching/selection/filtering tools
Rich functionality (e.g. creating new zones (maps/.zone
lists) and variables, selectIF conditions and radial searching)
Variety of print/output formats (e.g. csv, xls, html, xml, dbf)
Integrated GIS/InstantAtlas Web publishing tool
The Data
Access to all 2011 Census data tables
2011 Dataset Date No. of Tables
Geography
Key Statistics (KS) Nov’12 to Feb’13 36 Output Area and above
Quick Statistics (QS) Nov’12 to Feb’13 67 Output Area and above
Local Characteristics (LC) Mar to June’13 98 Output Area and above
Detailed Characteristics (DT) July to Oct’13 154 Ward/MSOA and above
Theme (T) July to Oct’13 35 Ward/MSOA and above
Armed Forces (AF) July to Oct’13 4 Ward/MSOA and above
Further releases Beyond Oct’13 >69 various
plus other geographies (Health, wards, parishes…,etc) and
The Data
2011 Commissioned tables 2011 Workplace/migration flows
Data QA, corrections and provide updates
Access to UK 2001 Census data- datasets: KS/UV/CS/CT/ST/TT/AF- 2011 equivalent geography- other geographies (Health, urban areas, parli. cons…etc) - Commissioned tables- Workplace/migration flows
Historic data: 1991/1981/1971 Censuses
The Service
Software upgrades, maintenance and enhancements
New data releases/corrections
Documentation, User Guidance Notes, newsletters, blog
Census and SASPAC helpdesk phone/email support (provided by experienced data users)
The Service
Freely available training materials
Census and SASPAC training courses(London City Hall and on location)
Representing users during consultations and as members of Census Offices’ Working Groups
SASPAC Advisory Panel of representative users
The Service
One-off purchase fee of £825 for entire organisation
Annual support fee of £675
Fees are modest and designed to cover development and support costs – non-profit
Consortium arrangements are available
Training – on a cost recovery basis (typically £150 per person or £850 for a group)
SASPAC 2011
Census Partners working with ONS, NRS, NISRA(with NOMIS, Manchester MIMAS)
Testing and building applications using the API as it has been developing
SASPAC team are experienced users and supporters of the Census
Flexible to deal with data from all 3 Census Offices via bulk delivery and/or online (via APIs) in the future
SASPAC 2011
Intensive period of development underway; keeping pace with ONS announcements
2011 data access will have a new look for spring outputs with further enhancements as more detailed data becomes available
Build on existing USPs but focus on building ‘Census data intelligence’ and supporting Census data use
The future: more data sources, more web delivery and more functionality
