ONS 'Beyond 2011' User Consulation

HSA members may be interested to read about the ongoing work of the Office for National Statistics' 'Beyond 2011' initiative, which is seeking to assess the options for the collection and reporting of accurate and timely social, economic and demographic data in the future, including potentially reducing reliance on decennial population censuses and increasing the use of administrative data. The Beyond 2011 team have recently published a summary of their consultation responses and are planning a programme of publications and workshops from October.  More information can be found at ONS 'Beyond 2011'
The summary report has some specific information on housing matters and concludes that small-area data on 'traditional' topics like tenure, type and size continue to be of central importance to the work of a number of housing organisations, but that quality measures (such as homes without central heating) are becoming less so.