Dear all,
The Edinburgh local group of the Royal Statistical Society will be
organizing the following meeting on Tuesday 25th February. The event is
free and open to all, and no registration is required.
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Tuesday 25 February 2013, 6-7pm
Census 2011: Results so far and innovative ways to access data
Sandy Taylor (Statistician from National Records of Scotland) and Justin
Hayes (Census Support Service Manager, Mimas, University of Manchester)
ICMS, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AA
Tea & coffee available from 5pm, and the Annual General Meeting of the
Edinburgh local RSS group will be held at 5.30pm
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This meeting will feature two talks:
* Scotland's Census 2011, Sandy Taylor *
The session will: provide some detail of the processes that lie behind the
processing of Scotland's Census 2011 (e.g coverage and imputation);
highlight some of the key results so far; and, offer an introduction to
the Census Data Explorer - National Records of Scotland's key online
resource for making the results from Scotland's Census available to users.
* New and easier ways of working with aggregate data and geographies from
UK censuses, Justin Hayes *
The aggregate outputs from UK censuses provide detailed, high quality
information on a wide range of the demographic and socio-economic
characteristics of people and households across the UK. They are, however,
very large and complex datasets, which can make them difficult to
understand and use effectively. This presentation will describe and
demonstrate how new methods of managing and providing access to the
aggregate outputs from the UK 2011 Census via the InFuse interface
(infuse.mimas.ac.uk) have made them easier to work with to exploit the
valuable information they contain. InFuse offers several unique features
including:
- Searches for data across the entire collection of UK aggregate outputs
by selecting combinations of variables rather than searching through
hundreds of traditional tables.
- Selection of data for equivalent geographical areas across the UK in a
single operation rather than separate operations for different countries.
- Integration of data and metadata to support understanding and effective use
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Many thanks,
Adam Butler ([log in to unmask])
Secretary of the Edinburgh local group of the Royal Statistical Society
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