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This site provides links to materials which are being developed to support the use of census data in learning and teaching. All learning and teaching materials are freely available for use by UK HE and FE sites and are customisable. They are being developed in consultation with users throughout the community. Many materials are now ready for piloting in the classroom. Please follow the links to the materials to find out more.
The data specific materials are being developed by three of the project partner sites:
If you're using the service off-campus you will need to login to prove that you are a member of a UK Higher or Further Education institution. On the CHCC login page, use the drop-down menu under the heading Universities to locate Manchester Metropolitan University. Then select Go. You will be presented with the MMU login screen and should input your MMU network ID and password to gain access.
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Available free to UK HE academics via MIMAS, EPSD is an annually updated database of UK neighbourhood statistics. The Experian database provides access to a range of local area statistics covering geo-demographics, demography, property transactions and car ownership for current postal sectors together with associated digital boundaries.
For detailed documentation and how to register, see http://www.mimas.ac.uk/experian/
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Population figures and projections from the United Nations.
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This is a new national service funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), which consolidates and incorporates the following established data services and websites:
More than 6,000 collections of high quality social and economic data can be accessed including:
Users can search and browse for all aspects of economic and social data, including Census data, using the new search engine Discover. Access to Discover does not require registration. However, to download data, or to analyse it online where possible, does require registration with the UK Data Service.
If you have not used this site previously, you may need to register: please follow the link for new users at the bottom of the home page.
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"UKBORDERS provides digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many Geographic Information System (GIS) formats (MapInfo MIF/MID, ArcView Shape, Arc/Info Export and several others) for teachers and researchers in the UK Higher and Further Education community to download and use in their work ... There are many digitised boundaries available. The main group of boundaries available correspond to the various levels of 2001 and 1991 Census geography which are designed to be used for spatial visualisation and analysis of Census statistics. Also available are environmental boundaries from various sources and historic boundaries created by the Great Britain Historic GIS Project, based at Portsmouth University."
To login to UKBORDERS, follow the link to Login via UK Federation on the UKBORDERS website. Select Manchester Metropolitan University from the drop-down menu and then click the Select button. You will be taken to an MMU login screen where you may input your MMU ID and password. Do not follow the Athens link as MMU no longer uses this form of authentication.
In order to access the data, you will also need to register individually with the UK Data Archive (UKDA) Census service. When you request data from UKBORDERS, the service will direct you to "the UKDA Census registration page where you can accept or reject the necessary terms. There is usually a delay of up to 24 hours before the updated UKDA registration becomes active. This means you will not be able to proceed with your request immediately". UKBORDERS recommends that you register and "then return the UKBorders application after some time to check if the registration has become active".
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Contains statistical tables of demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world.
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