CENSUS OUTPUTS Dissemination

PlansChris Ashford

2011 Census Outputs : Technical Delivery

Agenda• The ONS Website

– Where are we ?– What do some key customers want ?– What is the ONS vision ?

• Dissemination: From “Static” to “Dynamic”– Where were we in 2001 ?– Where might we be in 2012 ?– What’s happening now ?

• Research and Development – ONS “Proof of Concept”– ONS Data Explorer– Data Mining– Collaboration

• Next Steps & Questions

ONS Website

Current ONS Website Services

Census User Vision

ONS Vision

“STATIC” 2001: Select area & view list of tables

“STATIC” 2001: View table for selected area

“STATIC” 2001: View data in a thematic map

“DYNAMIC” 2011 : Select, view , & customise from “cubes”

“DYNAMIC” 2011: View table

“DYNAMIC” 2011 : “Mash Up” Merge Census and schools data on-line.

Australian Bureau of Statistics

QuickStats : Summaries about locations , with national comparisons

MapStats: Thematic maps of selected population characteristics

Tables: Topic and location in Excel

Community Profiles : Six profiles of key Census characteristics

CDATA Online : create tables on a range of topics for all geographies

TableBuilder: create your own tables by accessing all variables

ABS CData : Select topic

ABS CData: Select table

ABS CData: Create table

ABS CData: Add dimension

ABS CData:View added dimension

ABS CData:Add another dimension

ABS Table Builder: Databases

ABS Table Builder : Selection

ABS Table Builder : Add

Proof of Concept:The proposed approach:

• enables the provision of the range of data available from the 2001 Census in traditional and new ways

• enables ONS data to be provided to multiple web sites via a common interface.

• enables web site development to take place using a number of varied approaches and languages – not tied to a particular framework.

• provides an appropriate model for representing and disseminating ONS’ data

• supports ONS current and long term business publishing requirements

• supports multi-channel publishing using a single source publishing model

• enables content to be output in a range of standard formats

PoC & SDMX

• Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX ML)

– Designed to transfer datasets via the internet.

– ISO standard for XML with growing adoption

– Supports web access by other organisations, eg Eurostat

– SDMX fits well with ONS data models.

ONS Data Explorer

Census Partners

• Data Distributors– ONS / NeSS / NOMIS – SASPAC / CASWEB / WICD / C2001– WAG / Local Gvt– Commerce

• ESRC Data Feeds Network

• Census Web Services Working Group– www.ukcensusoutputs.net/cwswg

Next Steps

• Further work by Dec 2009– Select Final Architecture– Investigate automated creation and loading– Build a content repository– Test performance and capacity

• Further work by Jun 2010– Establish partnership arrangements– Build an initial “external” Application Programming Interface (API)

• Further work by December 2010– Completion of ONS API– Development of Web Applications by SASPAC and ESRC– Testing of API based services and new ONS website.