Posted by Brendan Davis – Wed, 04/06/2008 - 10:24
European Regulations govern the delivery of Census data to Eurostat from member states, and in the past the UK Census Offices(ONS, GROS and NISRA collectively)were obliged to provide Eurostat with a specific set of tables.
New regulations will come into effect for the next Census that will require the National Statistics Institutes of member states to make their data available in data cubes as specified by Eurostat. Member states have contributed to the development of these specifications. Eurostat plans to build a web portal that can access data held by those member states who have web systems that are able to exchange data automatically with other websites, and are carrying out some pilot studies.
The UK Census Offices are at an early stage in planning outputs, and the systems that will deliver them, and it is too soon for them to be involved with the pilot work or commit to developing such a system. However, we are interested in hearing about similar projects, especially those involving web access to data cubes, and learning about your experiences using web portals that access multiple web sites.
