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

Overview 1.What is SASPAC? 2.The Software 3.A ‘SASPAC User’ 4.The Data 5.The Service 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 DatasetDateNo. of Tables Geography Key Statistics (KS)Nov’12 to Feb’1336Output Area and above Quick Statistics (QS)Nov’12 to Feb’1367Output Area and above Local Characteristics (LC)Mar to June’1398Output Area and above Detailed Characteristics (DT)July to Oct’13154Ward/MSOA and above Theme (T)July to Oct’1335Ward/MSOA and above Armed Forces (AF)July to Oct’134Ward/MSOA and above Further releasesBeyond Oct’13>69various  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 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/ 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

Thank you & Questions?