12 July 2004
The Census Dissemination Unit (CDU) at MIMAS, based within the University of Manchester is pleased to announce the release of the Standard Tables and Census Aggregate Statistics 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.
