Local Statistics Tool User Guide

Vivienne Avery

AgeUK Research

2013 Contact: research@ageuk.org.uk

Why use local data?

• To deepen your understanding of older people and their needs in your area

• To understand the key drivers for funders and commissioners• To complement and support your qualitative expert knowledge• To support the identification of local priorities and hot spots• To ensure your services are targeted where they are most needed• To develop a dynamic planning process• To help you to measure impact

Benefits of using the tool

I presented the stats tool to staff to demonstrate the level of intelligence that can be called upon from Age UK. This is increasingly important as we move in to a more clinical world of commissioning and have to demonstrate the worth of our services in more quantitative ways.

Alison Waters, Age UK, London & South

I just had the link for the Local Statistics tool forwarded to me and had to comment on what a useful and well-constructed spreadsheet it is. To be able to access so much London borough information with just a couple of clicks is very valuable indeed.

Ben Donovan, Age UK, London

As a community fundraiser I can tell you I have found this and the previous versions priceless and am always referring to it for various event’s, letters and pitches. Only this Tuesday myself and our Home Services Manager gave a pitch to our local sainsbury’s as we had been shortlisted for their charity of the year and used numerous facts taken from this tool.

Lawrie Mallyon, AgeUK Horsham

Key features of the tool

•Data for all 365 Local/Unitary authorities, regions + Home Nations

Local areas

•Broad range of topics from population to service use and lifestyle

Topic range

•Select an area for a profile comparing this to your regional and national average

Local Area Profiles

•Choose up to 8 areas for a profile comparing data

Area Comparison

•Reliable estimates from official statistics

Data quality

•instantly see how your area compares to the national picture

Maps

•user friendly access to data on ageing

Simplicity

Statistics Tool Themes

• Population• Ethnicity• Living Arrangements• Life Expectancy• Health / Health Services• Social Care & Carers• Mortality & End of Life• Pensions, Poverty and Exclusion• Employment and Lifestyle

Accessing the spreadsheetThe most up-to-date version is on AGEnet

Updates are announced in the weekly Signpost bulletin

To access the tool, click on:

Resources

Information and Advice

Information Resources

Local Statistics

Click on Resources

Maximising the screen

1. Click the ‘maximise’ button

2. Click the left hand arrow to all worksheets are visible

2. Click the left hand arrow

1. Click the ‘maximise’ button

Use the Index worksheet to navigate to where you want to go• The spreadsheet contains 9 worksheets

• Click on the ‘Index’ worksheet for an explanation of each worksheet

Finding the Indicator you need

Click on the worksheet ‘List of Indicators’

Scroll down through the list in Column B to find the item of

interest

Click on the link to go to that item in the ‘Data’ worksheet

Browse other columns in this worksheet provide more

information about each indicator

2. Scroll down to browse through the indicator list

3. Click on a link to go to the desired indicator

1. Click on the ‘List of Indicators’ worksheet

Using the ‘Data’ worksheet

The ‘Data’ worksheet lists areas in rows and indicators in columns

National and English regional totals are listed first, followed by

local authorities

social care responsibility areas that are county councils

Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland local authorities/districts

To find your area either scroll down through the list

Or use the ‘search’ function

To search for a local area

• Click at the top of column D to highlight the column

• Click on ‘find and select’• Type in part of the area

name• Click ‘find next’ if a

different area comes up at first

• Highlight the row for that area to read across for all the indicators

1. Click to highlight Column D

2. Click ‘Find and Select’ and type in area name

Using Social Care data

• About half of the areas responsible for providing social care are local/unitary authorities, and half are county councils

• Social care data is stored in the relevant row

• Data for the county councils can be found by scrolling down below the local authorities

Local Area Profiles

• This tool provides an overview of statistics on older people in your area and compares this to the regional and national average

• Simply select an area from the drop-down list and the profile is created automatically

• You can print or save the profile as a .pdf by clicking the buttons (you may need to enable macros in your version of Excel)

Select chose authority from drop-down menu

• This tool allows you to compare similar data to the local profile for up to 8 areas

• You select the areas in the same way from the drop-down menu

• There are buttons to save a pdf and print the profiles

Area comparison profiles

Adur 22.2 Adur 3.4Allerdale 21.0 Allerdale 2.7Amber Valley 18.8 Amber Valley 2.5Arun 26.4 Arun 4.4Ashfield 17.2 Ashfield 2.0Ashford 17.1 Ashford 2.4Aylesbury Vale 15.0 Aylesbury Vale 1.9Babergh 21.6 Babergh 3.0England 16.4 England 2.2

Proportion of population aged 65 & over Proportion of population aged 85 & over

AREA COMPARISON - POPULATION

2,1002,600

3,100

6,600

2,4002,8003,400

2,600

3,660

2,6003,500

4,600

9,200

3,400

4,500

6,100

4,000

5,299

01,0002,0003,0004,0005,0006,0007,0008,0009,000

10,000Size of population aged 85 & over, 2011 & 2022 (projected)

2011 2022

13,600

20,20023,000

39,600

20,50020,300

26,300

19,000

26,778

16,300

25,000

30,800

51,700

25,90027,600

38,600

25,600

33,598

0

10,000

20,000

30,000

40,000

50,000

60,000Size of population aged 65 & over, 2011 & 2022 (projected)

2011 2022

Maps of selected indicators

• A selection of maps provide a snapshot of how your area compares with the national pattern

• To adjust the size for a better view, either

• use the zoom feature within excel,

• or click on the map and drag and corners

• or cut and paste into another document

• The maps are .jpeg files and can be cut and pasted into other documents for your own use

Lower level analysis

• This worksheet tells you how to get data for different geographies including smaller areas

• Data for smaller areas provide a more precise picture but are only available for a few indicators

• In future we hope to include these in the tool

• If you have a mapping request for lower level data please contact Research

Web tool on the Knowledge Hub

• We developed an interactive map tool for the Parliamentary Conferences showing data by Parliamentary Constituency

• Added this to the Knowledge Hub • Go to Age UK website, click on

‘For professionals’ at the top then ‘Knowledge Hub’ from menu at RHS

• We hope to update this in 2013 with new statistics and updated definitions of the areas covered by local partner Age UKs.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/knowledge-hub-evidence-statistics/interactive-maps-of-ageing-/

Feedback• There are currently over 50,000 data items in the spreadsheet. We have

done some intensive checking but there may still be errors. Please let us know if something looks odd

• We need your feedback • Comments on the content and design feed into our future planning • Details of how you have used the tool (especially income generation)

to help make the case to continue this work• Requests for future items

• Send your feedback to research@ageuk.org.uk or contact vivienne.avery@ageuk.org.uk / tel: 0203 033 1381