Royal Statistical Society
Social Statistics Section & Statistics User Forum
EXPLORING THE USE AND VALUE OF THE ONS OUTPUT AREA CLASSIFICATION
An afternoon seminar about using the area classification to understand the
UK at small area level
Thursday 2 November 2006
The Output Area Classification (OAC) distills key results from the 2001
Census to provide a simple measure of the character, similarities, and
differences of local areas across the UK. It was produced with the same
well-established methods as the related classifications of local authorities
and wards. Like these it is freely available for all to use, and complements
commercially available classifications. The seminar brings together experts
to help those in the public and private sectors who use or would like to use
OAC for profiling populations, structuring other data, or targeting
resources. It will conclude with a discussion on the future, and on setting
up an OAC user group under the Statistics Users Forum.
Programme & speakers:
Themes for the afternoon will be
- creating the classification: objectives
- presentation: visualisation and access
- uses: effective applications
- issues and solutions
- the future, and a user group
Speakers will include Dr Dan Vickers (University of Sheffield), who
developed OAC whilst at the University of Leeds, Professor Martin Callingham
of Birkbeck College, and Sheena Gordon and Alistair Calder from ONS. The RSS
website will provide advance introductory and background information (with
links) for the seminar, especially for those new to area classification.
Date & Time:
Thursday 2 November 2006, starting at 14.00 (registration and coffee from
13.30) and finishing c.16.30
Place:
RSS, 12 Errol Street, London EC1Y 8LX
Bookings:
If you would like to attend this meeting, which is free of charge, it is
essential to register before 27 October: email [log in to unmask] or
telephone: 020 7638 8998. Please note that places are limited.
Further information:
For more information about the programme please contact: Chris Denham
[log in to unmask] or telephone 02392 413766. The seminar will not
cover the details of the statistical methods of area classification, but the
organisers would be interested to know of interest in having a further
seminar on methods.
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