Census Learning and Teaching Materials
The Census Learning and Teaching Materials were originally developed as part of the CHCC project (Collection of Historical and Contemporary Census Data and Related Materials).
In 2009 the CHCC materials were updated to include references to the 2001 Census where appropriate, and where possible to make the materials open access, as well as depositing the materials within Jorum.
Publicity Material
A PDF version of the Census Factcard is available to view or download:
To view and print the PDF format documents, you will need to download the Adobe Acrobat Reader, Version 4 or above. (This is free software that allows you to view and print Adobe Portable Document Format).
Training Events
When the CDU gives a training course the course materials will be provided for download on this web page. The ESRC Census Programme puts on a number of coordinated training events each year, usually involving 2 or more of the data support units to bring together different aspects of the Census.
Combining Census Aggregate Statistics with Digital Boundary Data for Mapping and Spatial Analysis
This workshop has been developed jointly by the Census Dissemination Unit and UKBORDERS. Current versions of the workshop presentation and exercises are available for download below.
UK Censuses provide an unrivalled source of contemporary and historical demographic and socio-economic information, available with complete UK coverage at a range of geographical scales down to small local areas. Census information has a vast range of actual and potential uses, both on its own, and in conjunction with information from other sources. Census data has traditionally been used mainly in research, but new developments have reduced technical barriers and expanded its use in teaching and learning environments. Book yourself onto this course if you'd like to learn how to understand, make use of, and map census data in your own work, incorporate it into your teaching, or encourage others (your students, for example) to use it in their work.
The course begins with a brief overview of the wide range of census-related resources available from the units of the ESRC Census Programme, and then focuses on the census aggregate statistics, the most widely used component of the census outputs, available from the Census Dissemination Unit (CDU), and the digital boundary data (DBD) used for computer mapping and spatial analyses, available from UKBORDERS.
The course consists of a mixture of presentations and supervised hands-on exercises, and aims to be flexible enough to accommodate the particular interests of attendees, whilst providing answers to common questions such as:
- What are the census aggregate statistics?
- What is digital boundary data?
- What are they used for, and how might I use them?
- How can I identify and obtain information of interest to me?
- How can I combine aggregate statistics and DBD to produce maps and perform spatial analyses?
- What methods could I use to combine non-census information (e.g. postcoded sample data) with aggregate statistics and DBD?
Downloadable Course Materials
Forthcoming Training Events
The Events and training webpage at Census.ac.uk contains a course calender and details of all forthcoming training.
