To help support users we have recently added an FAQs page to our website – if you have any questions you’d like us to answer please send them through the helpdesk.
We’ve also added a number of software videos to support our training materials, which can be found here.
We will be updating these resources regularly and will notify you as and when new content goes live.
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The Training section of the SASPAC website has been updated and is the place to go for the latest training materials, information on course booking and Helpdesk contact details. The SASPAC Training Manual has also been revised to include information on the 2011 Census and can be accessed via the Downloads page of the website. The manual includes an introduction to the census dataset and an explanation of census geographies as well as modules to guide the user through various SASPAC features. It is a useful resource for both newcomers to the census and, as a reference tool, to more experienced users. |
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| The Support pages of the website now have a new Resources section where the SASPAC team will upload videos, presentations and all manner of useful and interesting material. Click on the image to watch a short video introduction to the Census and SASPAC.
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National Records of Scotland published the first in a series of quarterly progress notes designed to keep users up to date on the statistical outputs from the 2011 Census. Some highlights:
NRS are keen for interested parties to contact them with any suggestions for future progress report topics.
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National Records of Scotland (formerly GROS) made available a 2011 Census progress report at last week’s Census Outputs Working Group meeting (UPDATE 4/4/12: ONS slides (pdf) from this meeting now available). The report covers all areas of the Census work programme and some highlights are:
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SASPAC v9.25 is now available to users and is the first version of the software to query and interrogate data from a ‘live’ online source. The new Web Service’s Wizard allows users to search, query and download data directly from the Neighbourhood statistics website.
SASPAC's Web Services Wizard
This version is also compatible with Microsoft’s Windows 7 operating system. To upgrade and find out more about this development visit the Software release page of our website.
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This document sets out the ONS Strategy for the dissemination of outputs from the 2011 Census. A separate consultation, currently underway, will define the content of the output dissemination systems. The ONS vision is to use the Web as the primary dissemination route:
“Users would access the data via an appropriate frontend web interface, which may be the ONS web frontend providing basic data explorer functionality or a more specialist frontend created by external partners such as SASPAC, which provides more advanced functionality for a particular user group”. (para.2, page 7).
SASPAC is already involved in helping ONS develop these systems and are looking forward to helping ONS achieve their key milestones (pages 9 to 11) over the coming year.
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The results from the SASPAC User Survey, undertaken in the summer of 2009, have now been published. The survey received a healthy response from 104 different organisations across local and central government, the health sector and academia.
Thank you to all those users who completed the survey; your feedback is essential to informing the software’s development and the services we provide following the 2011 Census.
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