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IA National Data Service – Census 2021 – Demography and Migration Topic

Last updated: 21^st of December 2022

The National Data Service has been updated with the data from the Demography and migration topic summary from Census 2021.

This adds nearly 1,500 new indicators to the service, with data available at the geographies it has been published for by ONS:

Country
Region
Upper Tier Local Authority
Lower Tier Local Authority
Middle Layer Super Output Area
Lower Layer Super Output Area

To display the LSOA level data we have added a new core geography to the National Data Service called LSOA 2021.

Although ONS did not publish data at ward level, where possible we have generated values at this level by aggregating values from OA area using a population weighted centroids best fit method.

These new indictors are all located under the Population theme, and organised into subthemes that reflect the census table that they were sourced from. We have retained the structure the data were published in, and have also retained the name of the census table in the theme names and indicator names. This is helpful for users that are familiar with the way the census data is organised and/or the names of the tables.

Under each top level theme in the National Data Service, the old data from Census 2011 have been moved into a subtheme labeled Census 2011, to avoid confusion with the 2021 data.

For customers with a managed Data Observatory website, the data are displayed in the following places:

1) Population Map Explorer (updated 6^th Dec 2022)

2) Data Explorer (updated 6^th Dec 2022)

3) Upper and lower tier local authority Population reports (updated 7^th and 9^th Dec 2022)

In January we will be adding data for the further topic summaries that have been released by ONS and updating our ward level reports in addition to the reports at local authority level.

IA National Data Service – October 2022 Update

Education

Pupil characteristics data was updated on 18^th of October. Fixes were applied on 27^th of October.

Crime

August 2022 monthly and 12 monthly rolling average data were uploaded on 8^th of October.

Economy & Employment

Claimant Count (September 2022) was updated on 11^th of October.

People in Universal Credit (September 2022) was updated on 15^th of October.

BRES data was updated on 15^th of October.

Annual Population Survey data was updated on 16^th of October. Minor fixes were applied on 19^th of October.

Deprivation

Children in low income families data was updated on 13^th of October. Fixes were applied on 22^nd of November.

IA National Data Service – September 2022 Update

Housing

Household dwelling data was updated on 5^th of September.

House prices data was updated on 27^th of September.

Education

Pupil characteristics – first language data was updated on 29^th of September.

Crime

July 2022 monthly and 12 monthly rolling average data were uploaded on 8^th of September.

Economy & Employment

Claimant Count (August 2022) was updated on 13^th of September.

People in Universal Credit (August 2022) was updated on 14^th of September.

Working with the Map Widget in Report Builder

Adding a map to your reports can provide some much needed context for your readers, and also display your data in an informative and engaging style. While a lot of the Report Builder widgets will likely be intuitive for the avid ArcGIS Online user, there are some widgets you may not be familiar with.

The map widget allows you to display a map of the report base layer either as a simple map of the areas available to report on, or as a thematic map, focused on a particular indicator. Alternatively, this widget also allows you to display any other web map you have available within ArcGIS Online.

Within this blog, I will walk you through an example use case of the Web Map widget, to help you get started with your own report. I will be using the new 2021 Census Population Summary data, filtered down by region.
Continue reading Working with the Map Widget in Report Builder

IA National Data Service – August 2022 Update

Crime

June 2022 monthly and 12 monthly rolling average data were uploaded on ^5th of August.

Economy & Employment

The Apprenticeships dataset was updated on ^5th of August.

Claimant Count (July 2022) was updated on ^16th of August.

People in Universal Credit (July 2022) was updated on ^17th of August.

Environment

The Emissions dataset was updated on the ^10th of August. The figures for carbon dioxide were updated and new figures included for methane and nitrous oxide.

Annual Population Survey

The data for Apr 2021- Mar 2022 was added on ^16th of August (out of cycle).

IA National Data Service – July 2022 Update

Population

Census 2021 headline data added – read more here.

Crime

May 2022 monthly and 12 monthly rolling average data were uploaded.

Economy & Employment

Claimant Count (June 2022) was updated.

People in Universal Credit (June 2022) was updated.

Environment

The Waste dataset was updated on the 12^th of July.

Housing

The Household Projections dataset was updated on the 15^th of July.

The House Prices dataset was updated on 23^th of July.

Children and Young People

The Absences dataset was updated on the 29^th of July.

IA National Data Service – Census 2021 first results

The first results of Census 2021 were added to the National Data Service on 4th July 2022 and are now available for viewing.

This brand new set of around 140 indicators can be found in the the Population theme, under a Census 2021 subtheme. This dataset combines the first release results for 2021 – available at local authority, region and country level for England and Wales – with the closest equivalent data selected from NOMIS for 2011, 2001 and 1991 to show change over time in the headline data. The population estimates are broken down by sex, broad age group and 5-year age groups.

Note that there may be some differences to the basis on how the values were generated. Note also that this first release data for 2021 gives figures rounded to the nearest 100 – later release will be unrounded and can be expected to show some differences to these figures.

For customers with a managed Data Observatory website, the data are displayed in the following places:

1) Population reports for top and lower tier local authorities (updated 7th July 2022)

2) Population Map Explorer (updated 4th July 2022)

3) Data Explorer (updated 4th July 2022)

We will add further data from Census 2021 to the National Data Service once these have been released. You can read the release plans from ONS for the data here.

IA National Data Service – June 2022 Update

Crime

April 2022 monthly and 12 monthly rolling average data were uploaded.

Economy & Employment

Claimant Count (May 2022) was updated.

People in Universal Credit (May 2022) was updated.

Deprivation

The Fuel Poverty dataset was updated on the 9^th of June.

Environment

The Electricity and Gas consumption dataset was updated 9^th of June.

Technical Support for InstantAtlas

– International and Desktop customers please jump to the bottom of this post –

Authorised Callers

Support cases must be submitted via My Esri or the over phone and for this you will need to be an Authorised Caller. An Authorised Caller is a designated individual who may contact Esri UK online or by telephone to request Support. Your My Esri Administrator has the ability to manage your organisation’s allocation of Authorised Callers.

Your Authorised Callers must be prepared to provide your Esri customer number and as much information as possible regarding the issue being reported, such as the version of the software and operating system affected, steps to reproduce the problem, and the exact text of any error messages.

The Esri UK Technical Support Team handle cases for many different software products, so please be as specific as you can when raising your question or issue. Please provide links and screenshots where appropriate.

Submitting Cases Online using My Esri

My Esri is a single location online where you can manage all aspects of your relationship with Esri UK. My Esri consolidates your organization’s information into a single experience, including data from Support, Customer Service, Events, and Training. My Esri also contains software downloads and authorisation numbers necessary for you to install and activate Esri products (note: not necessary for InstantAtlas).

My Esri – Signing in and Navigating to the Support Page

You can sign in to My Esri by visiting https://my.esri.com/. You can use your existing Esri Account to sign in. If you do not already have an account, you can create one from the Sign In page in My Esri by clicking on Create a Public Account.

Steps for navigating to the Support page:

Step 1: Ensure your organization (customer number) in the dropdown menu located in the top grey bar of the My Esri page is selected.

Step 2: Click on Support at the top right of the My Esri page.

Step 3: To request a new case you can immediately use the blue Request Case button in the menu. Alternatively you can select one of the other menu options to access the support pages: Overview, Cases and Bugs & Enhancements. The latter two contain various subpages which can be accessed through the submenu on the top-left-hand side.

My Esri – Request Case

Please ensure that each issue is logged as a separate case and avoid adding multiple questions together in one case.

Steps for submitting a case:

Step 1: Click the Support option in the main menu.

Step 2: Click Request Case. The steps below apply if the By describing your product option is selected.

Step 3: Select ‘More products’ from the Product Category menu.

Step 4: Select ‘Other’ from the Product Sub-Category menu.

Step 5: Select the appropriate Product. The table below provides some examples to guide you.

Product in My Esri	When to use	Example
InstantAtlas Data Observatory	A general issue relating to the observatory solution, including the front-end website	Why is the text I have added in WordPress not displayed in the website?
National Data Service	An issue specifically related to the data in the National Data Service and how this displays in the reports and apps	Why are the latest population estimates not showing for the wards in my area?
InstantAtlas Data Explorer	An issue specifically relating to the functionality of the Explorer apps embedded in the observatory website	Why am I unable to locate the data I am searching for using the Data Explorer?
InstantAtlas Dashboard Builder	An issue specifically relating to the use of Dashboard Builder app to create your own dashboards	Why am I unable to connect my CSV data source to my data layer?
InstantAtlas Data Catalog	An issue specifically relating to any of the tools belonging to the Data Catalog app	Why am I unable to find my hosted catalog in the Data Catalog Manager tool?

Step 6: Select ‘N/A’ in the Version and Operating System menus.

Step 7: Click Next to enter the issues details, then click Next to fill in the addition contact information.

Step 8: On the summary screen click Send Request.

Submitting Cases by Phone

When submitting new cases to Esri over the phone, your Authorised Callers are prompted to provide the following before being routed to the appropriately-skilled Support analyst:

customer number
the Esri product associated with the issue (please see table above)
a brief description of the issue

Authorised Callers are validated for submitting a new case upon providing their customer number. When calling back to discuss an existing case, the caller is prompted for the customer number and case number.

Phone number: +44 (0)1296 745 555

Available Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 17:30 excluding Public Holidays (England)

Exceptions

The only exceptions to the process described above are:

International InstantAtlas customers – customers based outside of the UK & Ireland should submit support cases by sending an email with the relevant information to internationalsupport@esriuk.com.
InstantAtlas Desktop customers – irrespective of their location, customers of InstantAtlas Desktop should submit support cases by sending an email with the relevant information to support@instantatlas.com.

IA Data Explorer 2.1.0 – 10 May 2022 Release Notes

List of changes

Ordering of indicators

We have improved the order in which the Data Explorer will display indicators from the National Data Service on initial load and when it is filtered to a theme (with no search term). Prior to this change, indicators in different themes were ending up with an identical score for the purposes of ordering, which resulted in an illogical and confusing list of indicators from different sub-themes. Where an indicator has supporting indicators (e.g. numerator, denominator, confidence intervals), such as much of the health data in the National Data Service, the supporting indicators are now consistently listed immediately below the main indicator to make it easier to read the list. On initial load, the ONS mid-year population estimates appear first, with the total population at the top of the list.

Table sorting

It is now possible to sort the columns ascending/descending in the table view by clicking on a column heading. The sorting state is maintained even if you switch to view data for a different geography.

Mixed data sources

We have made improvements to the way the Data Explorer works with a data catalog that references ArcGIS Enterprise services as well as services in ArcGIS Online, whether these are public or restricted. This is important for customers that host their own data catalog and wish to incorporate data from a mix of sources.

Custom metadata fields

Again, for customers hosting their own data catalog, any custom/extra fields added to the data catalog metadata table will now be displayed in the Data Explorer (in the Metadata view).

Hiding indicators

There is now a configuration option to hide indicators that do not have an entry in the data catalog metadata table. This can be useful to exclude certain indicators that need to be part of the catalog, but do not need to be listed in the Data Explorer.

Bug fixes

Unable to backtrack after insufficient rights to view a restricted indicator
ArcGIS Online token included in Share link when viewing a restricted indicator

We hope you will enjoy the new version of Data Explorer!

If you have any questions relating to this release please contact support@instantatlas.com.