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New web portal for ESRC Census Programme
A new web portal has been launched - Census.ac.uk -
providing a significantly enhanced web presence for the Economic and
Social Research Council (ESRC) Census Programme, which gives access to
census data from 1971 onwards to academics in UK higher and further
education.
Census.ac.uk is the central point for
the programme. A wealth of census information - from 1971 through to 2001
- was already presented to the UK academic community through the census
programme, though in an irregular format which tended to emphasise who was
distributing particular data, rather than the breadth of data available.
The emphasis is now changed to help users identify the full range of data
which can support their work.
Available from Census.ac.uk:
- For the first time, a census data search facility based on
structured metadata;
- Details of the 1971-2001 census data available to UK academics
- An enhanced registration process to gain access to the data;
- Overviews of census data which are available to all enquirers; and
- An introduction to the structure of the ESRC Census Programme.
Census.ac.uk also gives users the opportunity to register their
research outputs online, in accordance with their obligations under the
programme’s licence for data use. There is access to aggregate data,
national statistics postcode directories, interaction data, digitised
boundary data and microdata, as well as metadata for longitudinal studies
covering the whole of the UK.
Census.ac.uk has been developed by a team working at the UK Data
Archive at the University of Essex, in conjunction with the programme’s
six data support units and the UK Census Agencies.
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