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All of the "My Areas" (also known as Draw Your Own Area) reports have now been made available for the majority of the standard areas (Neighbourhoods, Old Wards, Current Wards, Constituencies). Th full details of the new reports available are summarised in the table below:

New standard area reports

Report/Area Name	Neighbourhoods	Old Wards	Current Wards	Constituencies
Council Benefits	Existing	Existing	New	Existing
Areas of Stress (93)	Existing	Existing	New	Existing
Indicies of Deprivation (ID2004)	New	New	New	New
1991 Census	Existing	Existing	New	Existing
Ethnic Diversity (1991 - 2001)	New	New	New	New
SASPAC (2001)	New	New	New	New
Travel to Work (2001)	New	New	New	New
Jobseekers Allowance (1999-2006)	New	New	New	New

We are also working on getting new standards areas including the current Area Committee boundaries and a large selection of various Regeneration Areas.

You may have noticed that this page has changed a little bit, the updates for updated reports, layers and functionality are now being delivered in a blog format, this has a number of advantages over the old static pages:

• It allows you to register for updates using an RSS reader so you don't have to keep coming back to check for updates.
• Because we can now categories each update you can choose to subscribe only to updates about the new Reports, or many be just Data Layers!
  
• You can now comment on any update, tell us whats good, what bad and any mistakes that might have creeped it!
• It's a lot easier for us developers to update the site!

Anyway I hope you like it.
Stephen

 

A report based on the Government Indices of Deprivation 2004 has been turned on in the BCSP application, this allows you to draw any area and get an indication of the ID2004 Rank for the overall score and each of the domains. Because of the way the ID2004, areas above 1500 people (the average size of Lower SOA's, the level the data was supplied at) will likely show levels of deprivation as closer to the overall mean as the peaks and troughs in deprivation will be "smoothed" out. It is however useful to define your own areas and compare them with similar sized areas.

Stephen

ACXIOM a company that specialises in Geo-Demographic data similiar to CACI's ACORN or Experian's Mosaic.
We are  trialling a small subset of their lifestyle data as a group of layers in the BCSP which we feel users may find useful.

Tell us what you think.

Stephen