Data Impact blog

Tag: census data

1961 Census Digitisation: Statistical archaeology, getting the data off the artefact and creating a new linked data collection

6 February 2017

We are delighted to report our progress on our pioneering ‘statistical archaeology’ project to retrieve ‘lost’ information from the 1961 Census Small Area Statistics (SAS) from a large set of digital images, and make it available for digital analysis, using current software tools, for the first time.

International and census open data use at the UK Data Service and the fruits of data citation

2 December 2016

Susan Noble, Service Manager for international data at the UK Data Service based at Jisc, talks about how we find out what people have actually done with the data we provide and why it’s important that we do what we do!