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SASPAC and the Census

SASPAC and the Census. Making best use of the 2011 Census TWRI, York 5 October 2012 Alan Lewis SASPAC Programme Manager. Overview. What is SASPAC? The Software A ‘SASPAC User’ The Data The Service 2011 Census. What is SASPAC?.

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SASPAC and the Census

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  1. SASPAC and the Census Making best use of the 2011 Census TWRI, York 5 October 2012 Alan Lewis SASPAC Programme Manager

  2. Overview What is SASPAC? The Software A ‘SASPAC User’ The Data The Service 2011 Census

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. The Data • Access to all 2011 Census data tables • plus other geographies (Health, wards, parishes…,etc) and

  9. 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

  10. 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)

  11. 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

  12. 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)

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. Thank you & Questions? www.saspac.org info@saspac.org www.twitter.com/saspac2011 020 7983 4348

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