Thank you to all our users for continuing to support the SASPAC initiative. We’re looking forward to supporting your data access during a 2013 full of Census outputs!!
Season’s Greetings from the SASPAC team
21/12/2012
Leave a Comment » | 
Promotion | 
Permalink
Posted by SASPAC
Sneak a peek at SASPAC’s new interface
15/06/2012The first stage of SASPAC’s 2011 Census development programme has been delivered and a shiny new interface developed using sample 2001 data. A short 3 minute video is available and demonstrates the new ‘look and feel’ along with some of the current functionality. This interface will continue to grow and develop over the summer as we move towards the first Census outputs (2nd release in the output prospectus) released by ONS in November this year.
As always, we are keen to hear users’ thoughts, so please do get in touch with the helpdesk if you would like to be involved in testing and help inform the development.
Leave a Comment » | Development, Promotion, Uncategorized | Tagged: 2011, Census, Development, software | Permalink
Posted by SASPAC
BSPS Conference call for papers deadline
04/05/2012The 2012 British Society for Population Studies (BSPS) 2012 conference will be held at the University of Nottingham 
from 10-12 September. The current call for papers closes on 11 May.
In addition to the usual conference workstream presentations, meetings and networking opportunities, last year’s conference saw the introduction of a training session aimed at Local Authority demographers. Having been very well received, a similar course is planned for this year.
If you are not already a BSPS member you can join here for a small fee (that can be recouped by a discounted conference charge!).
Leave a Comment » | event, Promotion | Tagged: BSPS, conference | Permalink
Posted by SASPAC
Boris promotes Census
11/03/2011The Greater London Authority (GLA) are doing their bit to encourage residents to complete the Census questionnaires with a YouTube video by the Mayor Boris Johnson and website with links to supporting resources such as why it’s important, FAQs and visualisations of the 2001 response rates.
The GLA’s Intelligence Unit are responsible for the management, development and support of the SASPAC project.
Leave a Comment » | 2011, London, ONS, Promotion | Permalink
Posted by SASPAC
SASPAC in BURISA
11/03/2011The latest BURISA newsletter (187) was published this week and includes an article entitled “SASPAC – a 30-year success story!“. This provides an overview of SASPAC’s history – going back to it’s origins with David Rhind and Keith Dugmore and the 1981 Census – what we’re up to now and a look towards the future. The newsletter also features a 2011 Census update, reports on data visualisation, measuring wellbeing and lots more. The full newsletter is available to BURISA members from their website but the SASPAC article has been extracted and is available here.
BURISA is a non-profit making organisation that aims to promote better communication between people concerned with information and information systems in local and central government, the health services, utilities and the academic world through its regular newsletter and periodic conferences and workshops.
Leave a Comment » | 2011, BURISA, GROS, NISRA, ONS, Promotion | Permalink
Posted by SASPAC
Census Man!
10/03/2011
“Help Census Man save the day and fly around 8 different cities to help the citizens return their census forms to the postbox before its too late!”
As part of the promotional activities to widen knowledge of the Census a viral online game called “Census Man” has been developed and is being shared across social networks such as Facebook. Circulate around your networks to help spread the word, SASPAC hasn’t managed to get past level three yet!
Leave a Comment » | 2011, GROS, NISRA, ONS, Promotion | Permalink
Posted by SASPAC
