David developed the original software used to create Output Areas and has continued to advise and support the geographical work of the Office for National Statistics for 2011 and 2021 Census. He has also spent much of his time representing the data needs of census users.
The UK Data Service provides a unique range of census data iran rcs data outputs and resources, including access to census datasets dating from 1961 to 2011. Our expert team hosts data about areas, data about migration and travel-to-work flows between areas, digital boundaries, lookup tables, and samples of anonymized records.
We also support research users with access to more secure and detailed versions of some of these data held by the census agencies. We engage extensively with the UK agencies to advocate for census data users and provide a wide range of training and advice – and we are standing by to support the critical research and insight that will be based on 2021 census results.