Dr I Turton, Prof Stan Openshaw, and Dr A Evans,
Dr G Clarke and Dr JCH Stillwell
1st October 1999 – 31st January 2001
ESRC
The Census offices recently announced (Census News 41, 1999) their plans to provide simple cost effective and rapid systems for the 2001 Census which would allow users to request their own customised outputs for their own geographies.
This research supportS this task by developing and testing a pilot system that would allow census end-users to define their own data needs and to specify the scale and type of geography they would like using a web interface. The system automatically checks to ensure that confidentiality safeguards have been met, and if not, then it makes suggested changes to either geography or content or detail of content that trade off loss of detail (either geographical or data content) to ensure confidentiality restrictions are met.
You can find the results of this research at the pFOSS website.