Feature requests / Wish list

2011 Census

Mon, 4 Mar 2013 14:38:03 GMT

The latest 2011 Census newsletter says that second release data will be available on NOMIS - that's great news!! Just need the 2001 univariate data on NOMIS as well!!

Jayne Mills
Research and Statistics Specialist

DWP tabulation tool

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:52:41 GMT

I cannot understand why DWP don't put all their datasets onto NOMIS which has far better functionality than the tabulation tool which is really clunky! Also why have DWP withdrawn the vacancy data?

BRES: Local Authority returns

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:17:23 GMT

Hello all BRES users: I am currently acting as the local authority lead for the Central and Local Government Information Partnership (CLIP) Labour Market Statistics Group. BRES is, of course, a major discussion topic for the group and I have been talking with ONS about how we might be able to help improve the local authority returns for this dataset.

After release of the provisional BRES 2010 data, ONS were contacted by a number of local authorities with concerns. They investigated these queries, including making checks against the new 2011 returns coming in, and it seems that many of the 2010 anomalies are actually related to the quality of returns from local authorities themselves! As users of the data, it would be great if we could try to do something about this and I am hoping that we might all be able to help by liaising with the person who completes the BRES submission in our own authorities.

I've recently emailed to a list of Nomis users with a notice to access BRES with more details. If you've been missed and would like more information, please get in touch with me at a.e.gray@dorsetcc.gov.uk.

I'm also hoping to add details of common questions asked to this feed.

Thank you.
Anne

Data and Profiles for New Wards

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:34:23 GMT

Our ward boundaries changed in 2011 but, understandably, the Nomis Profiles and all available ward level data are for our old wards. Just wondering whether Nomis has plans to replace these with profiles for the new wards when the 2011 Census data is published, and whether there has been any indication from DWP that it will publish unemployment and benefits data for the new wards at that time? I am sure many authorities are in the same position. It's a problem, especially as our ward boundaries are no longer co-terminous with LSOAs and MSOAs.

NINo available via NOMIS?

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 12:42:16 GMT

The DWP publish quarterly National Statistics on National Insurance Number (NINo) Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals entering the UK. DWP are currently looking for user views on the statistics and the format in which they are provided including: the DWP Tabulation Tool, One-click tables and an annual Analytical Report.

The questionnaire will be available until Friday 24th February 2012 and gives users a structured way of expressing user views. This enables DWP to target future consultations at interested users; shape the future direction of statistics development to address user needs; and help ensure value for money.

The questionnaire can be downloded here:
http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/niall/index.php?page=nino_allocation

Personally, I find that although the statistics I require are available via the DWP Tabulation Tool, the download options available are not as flexible as they might be. Ideally I would like to be able to produce time series data for a variety of variables for a single local authority or other geography. Instead I have to download data for all geographies and manually extract the area I required and create a time series manually in excel. If NINo were made available via NOMIS, all these issues would be solved making extraction of NINo stats a lot more efficient.

Jayne Mills
Research and Statistics Specialist

Census univariate tables

Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:19:42 GMT

Any plans to put the Census univariate tables on NOMIS? It would be very helpful if you would. thanks

New BRES release

Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:49:31 GMT

would it be possible include a percents option, as used to be included in ABI, when the new BRES dataset is released? It has been extremely time consuming working out percentages and NOMIS has previously done it so well!

User defined geography names

Fri, 4 Nov 2011 12:04:15 GMT

Is it possible to get the name of user defined geographies to show in downloaded spreadsheets? Currently my data shows 'User defined geography' under area type and nothing under area name. This can be unhelpful when downloading statistically similar but geographically different areas on the same sheet

New ONS geoghraphy codes

Fri, 28 Oct 2011 14:36:24 GMT

Just wondering what NOMIS intends to do given the new ONS geography codes that came into being in January 2011.

Jayne Mills
Research and Statistics Specialist

LSOA order by code rather than 'name'

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 18:00:36 GMT

Is there an easy way of re-ordering the LSOAs according to the LSOA code instead of the LSOA names (which we never use)?

JSA age/duration rates for TTWAs

Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:01:23 GMT

Is there any likelihood of TTWAs being added to the geographies for the "claimant count - age/duration with proportions" dataset? We have a number of partners for whom TTWAs are a more appropriate geography than district and it would be really useful to be able to provide rates by age for those areas.

Definitions of Industrial 'Sectors'

Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:33:49 GMT

At a recent information sharing meeting, the issue was raised regarding having industrial 'sectors' available on NOMIS. The sectors referred to were ones that do not have a clear definition within the Standard Industrial Classification, for example, Green Sector, or Technology Sector.

Although these sectors may not have official definitions, in some cases there may be unofficial or usual definitions that are used. If some level of consensus can be reached across users, then we can establish these 'sectors' on NOMIS to be selected in cases where suitable industrial breakdown is available in the raw data available.

So, now it's over to you. Are there industrial sectors that you would like to see available on NOMIS and importantly, can you suggest a definition for those sectors in terms of the SIC2007 industries that you would like grouped together to form them.

We can't make any promises, but we will see what we can do.

The sorted order of Nomis output

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:29:20 GMT

Is it possible to reorder the various geography files used by Nomis according to AREA CODE rather than by AREA NAME (or perhaps to give a choice at the output stage); in the former City of Durham LAD for example there are 20 statistical wards; of these St. Nicholas is listed twentieth on any Nomis output using these wards, but its code suggests it should be listed eighteenth. This is because the prefix ‘St’ has been adopted for the area name, whilst the area code has been determined by a sorted list of names using the prefix ‘Saint’. It would make sense to adopt the area code as the primary sort order since it is designed to be the URN, and area names are not 100% unique e.g. ‘central’, ‘west’, etc.

This is a trivial request, but it is something that has caused us a few problems from time to time especially when trying to match data to archived records. We download a fair amount of data through queries and it is not always possible to intervene and sort the data into the required order.

Business Unit data at ward level

Fri, 15 Jul 2011 12:45:35 GMT

Are there any plans to include Business Unit Data on NOMIS at the same geographic level as the old ABI data (CAS Ward)? I found this to be a useful indicator when monitoring the local economy and now it's no longer available.
I understand I can get the data from IDBR on request (am expecting a fee for doing it) but it's nowhere near as useful as being able to manipulate the data myself

Index of Multiple Deprivation

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:47:25 GMT

Three new IMD Decile geographies (England, Scotland and Wales) have been launched on Nomis.
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/articles/587.aspx

The geographies made available would allow you to do things like make a comparison as to how your area rates against statistics for the various deciles, or look to see how these deciles have performed over time etc.

However, these geographies are also launched as a taster to introduce the IMD Deciles. What we would like to know, is what else you would like us to consider doing with them. We can't make any promises - but we would be interested to hear your ideas.

ASHE-NUTS level

Sat, 16 Apr 2011 21:49:24 GMT

Is it possible to provide the ASHE data for NUTS 2 and 3 level for the whole GB? Thanks a lot!

API

Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:19:14 GMT

I've noticed that one of the new features ONS promises with its new website will be an API to access data. Will nomis be involved in this?

Scottish Parliament Constituencies and Multi-member wards

Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:59:17 GMT

We are currently producing profiles for the Scottish Parliament Constituencies (boundaries are changing for the elections this May). There is no data on NOMIS for this geography (neither current nor new ones), nor is there anything for our multi-member wards which came into effect in 2007. Given that there is a lot of data for now defunct geographies (I was specifically looking at claimant count data - but it applies to other datasets too), do you have any plans to produce data for either of both of these geographies which would save us a great deal of effort reworking datazones on a best fit/split basis

Jennifer Boag
Senior Research Officer
Falkirk Council

Jobcentre Plus geographical boundaries

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:37:51 GMT

As Jobcentre Plus moves towards new District and Regional structures, are there plans in place to incorporate these into the geographical boundary options on the site?
Thanks

Ward Profiles - Labour Demand

Fri, 4 Feb 2011 14:15:48 GMT

Are there any plans to reintroduce the data on labour demand (total employees and employment breakdown by broad sector) to the 2003 CAS ward profiles? This was available until recently, but seems to have disappeared following release of the new BRES dataset.

Knowledge-based industries definition

Tue, 18 Jan 2011 18:27:36 GMT

Does anyone have an official or user-defined SIC definition for knowledge-based industries? If so could you forward it to economy@leeds.gov.uk
Can the definition be used for both SIC92 and SIC2003?

Order of geographies

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:59:40 GMT

I would love to be able to specify in which order geographies are listed when I download data

City regions and core cities geographies

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:40:08 GMT

Could the city regions and core cities be added to the list of geographies. They can be shared through User-Defined geographies, but it may make it easier for infrequent users.

Recently revised mid year population estimates

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:57:36 GMT

Could you please let us know when the recently revised mid-year population estimates will be available on NOMIS
Thanks
Derek

2010 Parliamentary Constituencies

Tue, 8 Jun 2010 17:25:04 GMT

Is there a likely month when Annual Population Survey data can be produced by the 2010 general election constituencies? Very glad that these are already available for ABI and the claimant count.

APS Household datasets

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:39:59 GMT

Now ONS has released APS Household datasets to the Data Archive, how soon can we get lone parent employment rates, workless households etc and children in workless/working/mixed households??

Census Data: Method of Journey to Work by Tenure

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:15:38 GMT

Hi,

I dont know if this is the correct way to ask this particular question, but is it possible to undertake a query using the 2001 Census data that searches for:

Method of travel to work by Tenure, at ward level.

Thanking you in advance for your help.

Broad Industry Groups for SIC 2007

Mon, 8 Mar 2010 17:42:41 GMT

Has anyone attempted to aggregate SIC2007 sections into broad industry groups? If not I will; they were a useful feature of SIC2003. It's mainly straightforward, but one issue is what to do with Section J Information and communication, where Telecommunications have been split off SIC2003 Section I (previously in BIG 6) but Computer programming (previously in BIG 7) and Publishing (previously in BIG 3) added. Given the distribution of employment in these categories, I think Section J belongs in BIG 7 Professional and business services rather than BIG 6. What does anyone else think?

Most deprived SOAs as pre defined geography

Fri, 5 Mar 2010 12:10:13 GMT

It would be very useful to be able to compare what is happening in the most deprived parts of my district, with deprived areas elsewhere.

Would it be possible to add the 20% most deprived SOAs in the country as a pre-defined geography (shared within user-defined perhaps), and also for each of the Government Office Regions?

I can create the most deprived areas in my Local Authority district as a user defined geography fairly easily - but it would be extremely time-consuming to set up for larger geographies.

Unemployment rates at ward level

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:52:55 GMT

Forgive me if this has already been answered elsewhere but why are JSA claimant count rates at ward level calculated using 2006 Working Age Population estimates rather than the latest (ie 2007).

Any response appreciated!

Thanks

Derek

Mid-year population estimates

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:50:33 GMT

Great to have the mid-year population estimate time series on NOMIS, but why did you not go right back to mid-1991?

David (not Neil)

Working from home

Wed, 1 Jul 2009 15:40:55 GMT

Is there any source of data on people working from home, and if so how frequently? I thought this may be covered in the LFS, but I can't find any source of this data. Thanks

Ability to share an entire query with another user

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:50:35 GMT

I run the same reports every month and need to be able to share them with colleagues who also need to run those reports in my absence without having to explain and/or teach them how to construct them.

Is this possible?

Ward profiles for newly introduced wards

Tue, 5 May 2009 16:44:57 GMT

Under Labour Market Profiles, the ward profiles are for 2003 CAS wards. In the case of Leeds, new wards were introduced in mid-2004. Are there any plans to provide profiles on a new ward basis?

agency workers in Scotland

Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:20:06 GMT

Can anybody help me to find out how many agency workers are employed in Scotland?

Business demography/Vat registered businesses

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:40:21 GMT

Just noticed that BERR have said this is the last year they will be publishing VAT registrations and deregistrations. They are moving to business demography including PAYE businesses.

Will these changes also apply to local data on NOMIS?

Of course that means a break in time series.

If we are changing, it would be good to have the survival rates as well.

Model based unemployment and unemployment rate - population denominator

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 11:43:51 GMT

Could someone clarify the population denominator for model based unemployed? On the labour market summary and in definitions below, the percentage is stated as expressed using the number of economically active - yet in the timeline behind the LM summary table, the percentage is stated as expressed as using the working age population. Though maybe i am not interpretting the footnotes correctly?

Also - is there a model based unemployment figure for the working age population?

Many thanks for any advice you can give.

Di Bromley
Policy and Partnerships (Research and Information)
Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council

Claimant proportions for Statwards

Tue, 2 Dec 2008 10:56:54 GMT

Claimant proportions are not available on Nomis for Statwards.

The best workaround seems to be: obtain the working age population form Nomis , and use ONS's 2006 statward experimental working age population estimates for the ward distribution (available at www.ons.gov.uk/ons/publications/re-reference-tables.html?edition=tcm%3A77-210667).

Not ideal.

Mid year population estimates:roll:

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:02:48 GMT

Individual age data?
or at least working age and adult age populations?

Claimant Count Early release?

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:07:50 GMT

Many moons ago, the Employment Service used to have early access (7.30am) to the claimant count data (9.30am). Is this service still in operation to Government Departments, i.e DWP?

Sub-national population projections

Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:49:02 GMT

Any plans to include sub-national population projetions on NOMIS?

any plans ro re-freeze wards?

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:55:44 GMT

Does anybody know if there are plans to re-freeze the ward boundaries to current definitions, for use by Nomis and other government statistics portals? Our ward boundaries changed in 2004 and it would be nice to know how much longer we have to continue working up current ward data using lookup tables.

Many thanks,
Pete

SVG in profiles and Firefox (etc)

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 11:53:15 GMT

I don't often use the profiles on the front page, but noticed that the charts would not display in my Firefox (version 3) despite it having built-in SVG. Sends me off for a plugin to do what my web browser does for itself.

I gather (not being a Mac user) that Safari has the same functionality.

Can you get the web team to recognise that most browsers other than Internet Explorer can display SVG charts and maps without plugins?

ONS tends to make the same mistake, so you aren't alone

Indices Of Deprivation Data

Mon, 20 Oct 2008 18:16:14 GMT

I'd like to find maps with Output area Codes on them so that I can see what areas make them up.

RSS feed

Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:45:08 GMT

Could we have an RSS feed on the home page of NOMIS please, like the one on the National Statistics home page? It would be useful for keeping an eye on your news items. Also one on this forum, to track new contributions

thanks
regards to all
Di Greaves, Research and Information Manager, Powys CC

JSA Claimant Count On/Off flow dates

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 11:26:21 GMT

I'm in need of urgent help !

Many years ago I remember there being separate periods given for JSA on & off-flow. Are these still available as I can't see any on the website? I need these dates as I'll be looking at daily averages for each month. I know you can standardise to 4 1/3 weeks, but I need to factor in bank holidays. I'll be looking to go back to August 07 and up to August 08 for these dates.

Many thanks

Money

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:35:12 GMT

Is there information available detailing the amount of money spent in a particular area (la) in relation to the amount of money earned? I know there are stats available for earnings jst hope there would be info regarding how much is spent on retail and leisure for a particular area

2001 Censsu Commissioned tables

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:48:36 GMT

Getting hold of daat from census commissioned tables is a nightmare - even using SASPAC. Perhaps they could be made available via NOMIS?

Jayne Mills
Research and Statistics Specialist

NINO stats

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:06:04 GMT

National Insurance Registrations

Number one on my wish list would be to make NINo statistics for foreign workers available via NOMIS.

Currently, although it is possible to get hold of stats from DWP at LA level on a quarterly basis, small area data is impossible to access. The data is colllected at postcode level but DWP will only make available upon request at postcode district level. Ideally we would like the data aggregated to ward level and DWP are not currently able to do this.

NOMIS would be the perfect way to deliver this data as very similar to the other DWP stats ie more detail available at higher geographies but only very limited detail for smaller areas.

The NINo data is increasingly being used to look at population change over time. Are there any plans to do this? If so when?

Jayne Mills
Research and Statistics Specialist

Population Statistics

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:29:36 GMT

Any chance of you loading up:

ONS Population projections?
ONS Small Area Population Estimates?
ONS Population Estimates by Ethnic Group?

Jayne Mills
Research and Statistics Specialist

ABI Sizeband definition

Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:35:15 GMT

I wish to examine micro businesses and SMEs using the EC definition and used by BERR in its statistics (micro <10, small 10-49, medium 50-249 and large 250 plus). Are there any plans to introduce these sizebands on NOMIS for examining the ABI?

Employees by industry unit size band

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:04:23 GMT

Is there any way of finding out the number of people employed in industries by number of employees in the unit eg 0-10 employees, 11-49 employees etc? The data doesn't seem to be downloadable from Nomis.

Livelinks - Multiple Dataformat options

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:51:32 GMT

We would like to see csv/tsv options included with livelinks as we will be able to point our internal systems at them for easier downloading and processing.

Is this possible?

Partners

Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:03:39 GMT

Will nomis be publishing numbers of partners of the benefit recipient - by each individual working age benefit?

IS and IB/SDA On/Off flows

Fri, 7 Dec 2007 15:12:56 GMT

I would like to see info on - both flows on and off for these benefits, including destination reasons - basically the same information that is currently provided for JSA customers

Stock/flows

Wed, 5 Dec 2007 13:33:28 GMT

I 'posted' a request a few days ago detailing future data I would like to see published - around on flows and off flows for IB and IS customers - similar to that which is currently produced for JSA customers, however this request seems to have vanished from the 'wish list' - would my request been removed for any reason??

New Learning and Skills Council Definitions

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:38:00 GMT

Is it possible to revise the current LSC are definitions to take into account recent changes. In the South East, Berkshire and Hampshire and Isle of Wight have now merged to form the Thames Valley LSC. Whilst I have a built in geography myself, other LSC guest users don't.

I'm not aware of any boundary changes, but presume that you may have a contact at the LSC/DCSF/DIUS that can assist.

Occupational data in ASHE

Wed, 7 Nov 2007 09:24:09 GMT

Hi,
Why isnt there an option to show occupations in the Annual Earnings data?

jake

Disclosure References

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:40:26 GMT

Thanks for facilitating such huge amounts of data!!

One wish though, when you need to reference a value for disclosure purposes (insufficient sample/disclosure control etc), can you avoid using the asterix * (and other possible wild card characters). When reproducing data in a formatted table we often use footnotes (a, b, c) or other characters and the wild card is not easily replaced in spreadsheets.

Modelled unemployment

Tue, 24 Jul 2007 15:00:59 GMT

Seems this is only currently available from the LM Profile.
Could it be included in key variable/variable selection when creating an APS query?

Jayne Mills
Statistics and Research Officer

Folders within My Definitions

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:34:43 GMT

I have quite a large number of defintions set up in Industries and Geographies. Is there any way of introducing a folder system so that the definitions can be better organised and would also allow the selection of all entries within a folder?
Thanks

Qualifications by Industry

Fri, 1 Jun 2007 12:24:32 GMT

First of all I would like to say as a new user how valuable this data source is in my role in education! It would be even more valuable if we could access data which showed us the level of qualifications by industry initially at a regional level e.g. south east but ideally at a local authority level. Is this possible?

APS - Qualifications

Thu, 17 May 2007 15:00:22 GMT

Is there any news on when data on qualifications will be available on the APS? Thanks

Tracy Brennan
Economic Intelligence Officer
Sefton MBC

APS - Travel to work data

Thu, 8 Feb 2007 12:46:19 GMT

Hi, does anyone know if the method of travel to work data collected in the LFS/APS is available to download from here? I can't find it. IF it is not here, does anyone know where it is available electronically? Thanks.

Can the list of SOAs be put in numerical order?

Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:33:16 GMT

I have just been creating different geographies using SOA lower level (to analyse DWP benefits data) and when I go to select some of the individual SOAs they are not in numerical order. Could they be put in order please as its difficult to look through all 259 to find just one or 2?

Any news on the APS...?

Mon, 4 Sep 2006 11:49:24 GMT

Hello

I've had a look at the release schedule, but I was wondering if there was any further word on the release of the Annual Population Survey? We're heading towards the end of May, and the previous release hasn't happened yet. Are both going to come out at once?

Visit our website www.mis.mottmac.com

Rural and Urban Geographies

Tue, 1 Aug 2006 18:11:14 GMT

This post is a more specific follow-up to the discussion on user-defined geographies and industries. As someone involved in work on rural economies, it would be very helpful to be able to access a series of pre-defined "rural" and "urban" geographies. These could be based on the official Rural and Urban Area Classification 2004, and provided at various geographic levels (regional and national would be most useful).

For example, "rural 2003 CAS wards in England"; or "rural LSOA's in England".

At present, obtaining a rural/urban split from the NOMIS datasets involves a very long-winded process of cutting and pasting definitions from worksheet to worksheet. If anyone has discovered a short-cut, please let me know!

Interestingly, Neighbourhood Statistics does include a rural/urban breakdown with the latest data on VAT-registered enterprises.

Any thoughts?

SOA Lower Layer area data

Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:18:40 GMT

Hi - Where can I get data such as the land areas or population densities of SOA Lower Layer areas. I know it could be done on the Neighbourhood site, but if I try to select more than a very few Lower Layer areas, it tell me that I have reached the limit of the number of areas I can select at this level. Therefore, that way it will take me a month of Sundays to get any Lower Layer data for, say, the whole of the East Wales NUTS 2 region, which is the area of my case study.

Hope you can help!

Steve

Don't forget the small geography data users!

Thu, 6 Jul 2006 10:10:54 GMT

Local authorities need data at low level geographies to monitor local labour market situations. Whilst it may be helpful for national and regional researchers to have employment data broken down by nationality and ethnicity, and by different types of disability, this does not permit the borough level data we need. We would love to have all this detailed information, but whilst the sample sizes are low the confidence levels are just too large. Could you provide us with broader categories so we can use this valuable information please?

Self-employment as a proportion of everyone

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:20:55 GMT

Is it possible to add, to the Annual Population Survey "Employment status" variables, "% who are self-employed - working age"?

I see that "% in employment who are self-employed - working age" is already there. However, we in the Small Business Service are keen for all people to think about becoming self-employed, not just those who are already employed. So we measure self-employment as a proportion of all people, not just those in employment.

Eligible local councils are currently drawing up bids for the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative, and SBS would like these councils to support these bids with evidence using the self-employment rates calculated in the same way.

Sorry if this is already available - I've had a search for about twenty minutes but can't see it. I suspect it might be possible to calculate by combining self-employment out of all employed figures with employment and population estimates, but I'd rather make it easy for all the local councils to access consistent rates.

User-defined geographies and industries

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:10:25 GMT

I wanted to run ABI2004 for counties, but found that this geography ceased in 2002. I don't fancy setting up user-defined geographies for all the counties, so ...

Could we have another geography category "Common user-defined geographies", which the Nomis team could extract from those set up by users. This could include counties, city regions, core cities etc.

This would also be useful for "Common user-defined industries". eg. Creative industries, media sector, knowledge based. I suspect the problem here would be that there is no national/European definition of what SICs make up these sectors.

Jobs Density figures

Mon, 3 Apr 2006 16:03:16 GMT

Can you tell me when the Jobs Density figures will be updated - 2003 is the most recent data currently available

Picky point!

Thu, 23 Mar 2006 18:13:30 GMT

Could 'Rhondda, Cynon, Taff' be changed to 'Rhondda Cynon Taf' (without commas) - its new official name (billingualism had meant that they had previously spelt out both names, despite the only difference being one f)

Self employment

Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:42:57 GMT

Self employed residents are available from the LFS, but I have never seen data on the number of self employed people working in an area. Does anyone know if there is any time series data available at the local authority level?

Ward based data again

Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:09:08 GMT

I am frequently asked if a particular dataset is available for current wards and if not, when it will be available.

To help with this is it possible to publish a note on the website showing what ward-based data is currently available for each of the datasets, and what will be available in the future (with proposed dates). This should cover frozen wards, CAS wards and current wards.

For each dataset, is it also possible to say what ward-based information is available on Neighbourhood Statistics or a particular government department site (eg DWP). Not all sites are as user-friendly as Nomis.

Claimant proportions for counties

Thu, 5 Jan 2006 10:07:03 GMT

Is there any way to get claimant proportions for the English counties? The 'historical areas' geography has 'pre-1996 counties' but the output doesn't include the proportion.

Simple thing that would help me - Source to begin with Capital Letter

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 15:06:10 GMT

This is a very simple request but is it possible for the source of downloaded data to start with captial letters. I constantly have to change this e.g. annual business inquiry to Annual Business Inquiry

ASHE occupation / industry

Thu, 1 Dec 2005 11:09:01 GMT

The news item says there is no breakdown by occ / industry for ASHE on Nomis. Does this mean it will be coming soon or that we are never going to get it. IMHO it is pretty useless without this breakdown, and this was the main thing I used NES for.

VAT data at ward level

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:49:22 GMT

Any chance of ward-level VAT data being available on Nomis - preferably for 2003 and 2004 wards? Some ward-level data is available is available on the ONS site, but the quality looks suspect.

Also, when the TECs were in operation we were able to get hold of local authority level business survival rates (if the TEC and LA boundaries coincided). Are there any plans for LA rates to be made available?

Data available at 2004 statistical wards

Wed, 2 Nov 2005 09:51:01 GMT

Claimant data is only available from October 2004 for the 2004 Statistical Wards. Is historical data likely to become available, so that claimant change can be investigated.

Also, will the ABI data released this December be available for the 2004 Wards

Detailed ethnicity breakdown

Thu, 20 Oct 2005 10:40:29 GMT

Is it possible to look at the Annual Population survey and draw a more detailed data set of employment by ethnicity. I need to see the breakdown of the main ethnic groups, so more detail than total of all white and all non-white. Thank you.

Frankie

Forum

Tue, 18 Oct 2005 16:48:25 GMT

Would it be possible for you to notify people when they have received a reply to their forum posts?
Thanks
Jayne Mills
Statistics and Research Officer

2004 Population estimates

Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:46:55 GMT

Are there any plans to update the population estimates section with the 2004 Mid year population estimates?

ABI standard errors

Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:06:58 GMT

I have a note (of a telephone conversation?) indicating that these are / will be available. Does anyone know how / when?

basic skills???

Thu, 22 Sep 2005 14:00:09 GMT

Basic Skills?
Where can i find information that can be downloaded into excel about the basic skills numbers for the south west? I am trying to get information on the adult literacy and numeracy for as recent as possible. Please help i have contacted dfes but they just gave me a report which wasnt any good. Thanks - Oh my deadline is next wednesday
914/09/05

GVA and Household Income data

Wed, 14 Sep 2005 16:08:24 GMT

Any chance that GVA and Household Income data could be made available on Nomis?

GVA data is published each December at the local authority level.
Gross household income data has been published as 'experimental statistics' down to the ward level. Data for 2001/02 is supposed to be available shortly.

Life would be a lot easier if all the data were available in one place.

Claimant data

Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:35:38 GMT

When extracting Claimant data with the option 'Proportion of resident working age population' on, could we be given the extra option to include this resident population in the output table. This would make it easier when we want to consolidate areas to counties, city regions etc.

Although we are supposed to use claimant proportions rather than claimant rates, some of us 'old times' still prefer to look at claimants divided by economically active population. Estimates of economically active are available from the LFS but these can be very erratic. Are official 'smoothed' estimates available?