SARs News

 

• The SARs ethnicity guide has been updated and is available from the ethnicity theme page. (9 March 2010)   

            

• Census workshops: more workshops have been organised for 2010 and those with a SARs element include the Overview of census data resources at the University of Essex on 15 March 2010 and the Health and mortality with microdata workshop in Belfast on 29 April 2010. (27 January 2010)

• A SARs presentation from the postgraduate training day on 18 November 2009 is now available online. (27 January 2010)

• A new report which reviews publications using the 2001 SARs, Use of the 2001 SARs, is now available. (22 October 2009)

• A new guide on imputation in the SARs, Guide to Imputation and Perturbation in the Samples of Anonymised Records, is now available. (22 October 2009)
  
  
• A new ethnicity theme page has been created which includes a link to the first of a new series of SARs research use examples. This example is on the topic of ethnicity and looks at age, household type and employment with the Household SARs for 1991 and 2001. (30 July 2009)
  
  
• The latest issue of the SARs newsletter, Issue 30 - June 2009, is now available. (29 June 2009)
  
  
• Emergency maintenance work on the Mimas servers providing authentication for Census Programme services hosted at Mimas is scheduled from 10:00 am on Thursday, 11 June 2009. Although most of the services will continue to run normally, users will be unable to login to use them via either UK Federation or Athens routes. It is anticipated that the period of unavailability will last for approximately two hours. The CDU would like to apologise to users of its services for any inconvenience caused. Further details and updates relating to the maintenance will be available from the news sections of the CDU and Mimas websites.

• report giving 'A business case for microdata files from the 2011 Census', written by Keith Dugmore, is now available. (5 May 2009)

• From 1 August 2009 access to the resources of the ESRC Census Programme will be via a single login route, replacing the current two options. Using this single login will present users with a list of organisations which have signed up to the UK Access Management Federation. This change will have no significant effect for most users. Find out more from census.ac.uk (17 April 2009).

• The 1991 SARs and 2001 End User Licence SARs are now available free of charge to not-for-profit organisations, including Local Authorities, Health Authorities, Central Government and charities. Information on how to access these files is available on the SARs web site. (11 March 2009)

Other News

• For old SARs news visit the SARs-announce archives

 

Updated 22 October 2009