6 August 2004
The Census Dissemination Unit (CDU) at MIMAS, based within the
University of Manchester is pleased to announce the release of
the Standard Tables Theme Tables, Census Aggregate Statistics Theme
and Univariate Table components of the aggregate outputs from the
2001 UK Census for Scotland through its Casweb interface at http://census.ac.uk/casweb.
As a result of processing and quality assurance work carried out at the CDU,
these datasets are available for all levels of the standard 2001 Census geography
used in Scotland, and are supplied complete with unique zone identifiers in
formats suitable for large scale comparative analyses. Casweb is the only service
offering this combination of features designed
to meet the needs of the UK academic community.
It is intended to follow this release with the remaining components of the
aggregate outputs from the 2001 Census for Scotland and the entire UK as quickly
as the processing and quality assurance of the data will allow. A release schedule
is available at http://cdu.mimas.ac.uk/schedule.htm.
Digital boundary data from the 2001 Census will be incorporated into Casweb
and made available to users following the release of numerical outputs. Further
information on outputs from the 2001 UK Census can be obtained from the census
pages of the websites of the national statistical agencies:
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/default.asp
The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/grosweb/grosweb.nsf/pages/censushm
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/start.html
Casweb is available using Athens authentication to all members and affiliates
of UK Higher and Further Education institutions. It aims to meet their specific
requirements by
providing:
* An easy-to-use interface that enables users with varying
levels of skill and experience to understand and make
selections from the available census data by guiding them
through a series of simple steps.
* Integrated access to census data for the whole UK, and from
a series of recent UK Censuses.
* Updated access to corrected or re-supplied data as soon as
it becomes available.
* Numerical census data combined with corresponding digital
boundary data in a range of standard GIS formats
* The ability to quickly download large subsets of census
data, together with accompanying metadata, in a range of
formats suitable for upload into most kinds of analytical
software for further analysis.
This unique combination of facilities is not available from any other currently
available online interface to UK Census data.
We have endeavoured to provide access to this data through Casweb as quickly
as has been possible. As a result, please note that aspects of the 2001 Census
elements of the Casweb interface are still under development, and may be subject
to change.
Please direct any comments or queries about Casweb or other aspects of CDU
services to:
MIMAS Census Helpdesk
E-mail - census@mimas.ac.uk
Telephone - 0161 275 6109
Details of all Census Dissemination Unit services can be found on the CDU website at http://census.ac.uk/cdu.
Information about the Athens authentication system is available
from the Census Registration Service website at http://census.data-archive.ac.uk.
Information about the full range of census-related resources available as part
of the ESRC/JISC 2001 Census of Population Programme can be found at http://census.ac.uk.
