Royal Statistical Society
Meeting of the Census Study Group and Statistics User Forum
3 May 2007, 09.30 -16.15 at the Royal Statistical Society
Census and statistical geographies: the way forward
The Royal Statistical Society Census Study Group and Statistics User Forum
are organizing this one day seminar to discuss 2011 census geography
development and its impact on UK statistics for small areas.
09.30 Registration
10.00 Welcome and overview of the day - Prof David Martin, Chair of Census
Study Group
Morning session: Suppliers of statistics for small areas
10.10 Geography in England and Wales: an overview of the ONS census
geography consultation - Alistair Calder, ONS Geography
11.00 Scotland's approach: balancing continuity and change - Frank Thomas
GROS and Matt Perkins, Scottish Executive
(11.30 Coffee)
11.45 Northern Ireland: facing total redesign - Robert Beatty, NISRA
12.15 Developing new statistics for neighbourhood renewal - David McLennan
and Mike Noble, Social Disadvantage Research Centre, University of Oxford
12.45 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
Afternoon session: Divergent user perspectives
14.00 Local government - Steve Turner, Tees Valley Joint Strategy Unit
Value-added resellers - Peter Sleight and David Harris, Assn. of
Census Distributors
Academic - Prof Paul Boyle, University of St Andrews
Commercial - Mike Whitelegge, Marks and Spencer
15.20 Invited Panel's views, and general discussion
16.15 Close
The meeting will take place at the Royal Statistical Society headquarters,
12 Errol Street, London, EC1Y 8LX (see
http://www.rss.org.uk/about/direction.html for a map and directions). There
is no charge for this event but pre-registration is required by 27 April:
please email [log in to unmask] or telephone: 020 7638 8998.
For more information about the content of the meeting please contact David
Martin [log in to unmask] or Keith Dugmore [log in to unmask]
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