CENSUS OUTPUTS Dissemination Plans Chris 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 –

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.