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Making Sense of the Census: One Year On with
the CAIRD Project
Rob DymondMimas Development OfficerCensus Dissemination UnitMimasUniversity of Manchester
Introduction
•Census Dissemination Unit (CDU)
•Mimas
•The University of Manchester
•Funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - Census Programme
What is CAIRD?
Census
Aggregate
Information
Resource
Demonstrator
•Statistical Data and Metadata Exchange (SDMX)- standard way to describe and exchange aggregate data and metadata
•Data Documentation Initiative (DDI)- standard for documentation of social science data
CAIRD: The good…
•Working prototype application
CAIRD: The good…
•The web service creates a gateway for people to access the data or customise their access to it
Database
Web service
Web application
CAIRD: The good…
•Very Large Mega Cube
•4.478 * 1039 potential data items
•309,253,650 populated data items
•Extremely sparsely populated
CAIRD: The good…
• SDMX/DDI hybrid
• Influencing agencies
CAIRD: The bad…
•Finding examples of similar work
•Keeping to the standards
CAIRD: The bad…
•Extracting the metadata from the published aggregate data tables
Cell: 0069
Sex: Male
General Health: Good Health and Fairly Good Health
Limiting Long-Term Illness: No Limiting Long-Term Illness
CAIRD: The ugly…
•Traditional approaches:the fixed cross tab
CAIRD: The ugly…
•Divorced data
What does this actually mean?
