4 new resources have been added, in addition 22 resources have been updated

Data highlights

Child Health Profiles

Child Health Profiles provide a picture of child health and well-being for each area in England. They use the most up-to-date, publically available health and well-being data which enable comparison locally, regionally and nationally. The profile includes a range of health indicators and broader well-being indicators. Data is available for Local Authorities in the England. Interactive mapping and profiles are included as part of the release.

UK competitiveness index

The UK Competitiveness Index has been designed as an integrated measure of competitiveness focusing on both the development and sustainability of businesses and the economic welfare of individuals. The aim of the UK Competitiveness Index is to assess the relative economic competitiveness of regions and localities in the UK by constructing a single index that reflects, as fully as possible, the measurable criteria constituting place competitiveness. Data is compared across all Local Authorities in the UK.

Data highlights

Business datasets

A range of data relating to business activity have been published on the Neighbourhood Statistics website. The Business Demography dataset shows the number of enterprise ‘births’ and ‘deaths’ for England and Wales. Births are the number of new enterprises created in the reference year; deaths are enterprises that have ceased trading in the reference year. In both cases, enterprises that are removed or added to the population as a result of mergers, break-ups, split-ups or other restructuring are not included. The data are available to local authority level.

The second dataset provides a count of local business units also contains counts of whether these businesses are categorised as being located in either an urban or rural location as defined by the Urban Rural Classification, and are available to Middle Layer SOA level.

The third dataset measures the age of local enterprises.

The final two datasets provide a count of local business units by Broad Industry group, and by Employment Size band. The data are presented as counts of whether these businesses are categorised as being located in either an urban or rural location as defined by the Urban Rural Classification, and are available to local authority level.

DWP Benefit quarterly updates

Data for a range of key DWP benefit datasets has been updated for August 2011. These updates are due to be published on Nomis and DWP on the 14th of March. These indicators can be used to compare levels of worklessness, disability and low income across neighbourhoods in Britain. The following indicators are included

• Income Support
• Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance
• Jobseekers Allowance
• Attendance Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance
• Pension Credit
• State Pension
• Carers Allowance.

The original classification was created for ONS by Dr Daniel Vickers at the University of Leeds using 2001 Census data.

The 2011 Census provides an opportunity for the 2001 Output Area Classification to be updated using 2011 Census data, and for the methodology used to create the OAC to be reviewed.

To help with the construction of a new OAC, and to better understand user requirements for it, user thoughts and requirements for a new OAC through a user engagement exercise are welcomed.

The user engagement period is from 17 February 2012 to 30 March 2012 and is aimed at users of the current Output Area Classification. However this user engagement exercise is also relevant to anyone interested in social area classifications, encompassing geodemographics and neighbourhood classifications.

For more information contact:

Andy Bates
Regional and Local Division
Office for National Statistics
Segensworth Road
Titchfield
Fareham
Hampshire PO15 5RR

Email: andrew.g.bates@ons.gsi.gov.uk

Data highlights

Mortality from key causes

A range of data relating to mortality from key health conditions has been published on the NHS Indicator Portal. These indicators provide age standardised death rates and estimated year of life lost from a range of key conditions including cancers, circulatory diseases, respiratory conditions and accidents. Data is available down to Local Authority level and covers a range of periods up to 2010.

Unemployment data updates.

Data on the number of people receiving unemployment benefit (Jobseekers Allowance) has been updated for January 2012. These estimates include breakdowns of benefit claimants by age and gender as well as information on benefit flows. For the first time it is also possible to look at unemployment benefit claimant rates against the economically active population rather than the working age population to get a refined measure of the level of unemployment in a locality, excluding those who are not seeking work. In addition neighbourhood statistics have produced two year worth of updates of Jobseekers Allowance claimants by ethnicity.

6 new resources have been added to the website since the last update. In addition, 35 datasets have been updated .

Data highlights

Social Housing demand and supply

A range of data on the supply and demand of social housing (available here) has been published by DCLG (Communities and Local Government). Data on the number of new affordable homes (both social rented and intermediate affordable homes) has been updated for 2011 alongside datasets showing the total dwelling stock by tenure in the Local Authority. Data on social housing rents has been updated for 2011/12. DCLG have also updated the data on the number of households on the local authorities’ housing waiting (available here) for 2011.

Local alcohol profiles 2011

The North West Public Health Observatory (NWPHO) have published updated Local alcohol profiles for 2011. These contain 24 indicators relating to the consumption of alcohol, and wider social and health consequences. As well as updated data, 4 new indicators have been added for people aged 16+: abstaining from drinking; engaged in lower risk drinking; engaged in increasing risk drinking;  and engaged in higher risk drinking. Data is available down to Local Authority level.

The consultation closes February 24th 2012, details at http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/niall/index.php?page=nino_allocation and questionnaire at http://research.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd1/niall/nino_consult.doc.

24 new resources have been added to the website since the last update. In addition 103(!) resources have been updated.

Data highlights

DWP Benefit quarterly updates

Data for a range of key DWP benefit datasets has been updated for May 2011. These updates have been released on Nomis and DWP. These indicators can be used to compare levels of worklessness, disability and low income across neighbourhoods in Britain. The following indicators are included:

• Income Support
• Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance
• Jobseekers Allowance
• Attendance Allowance
• Disability Living Allowance
• Pension Credit
• State Pension
• Carers Allowance.

Office for National Statistics website update

The ONS have revised their website to improve navigation around the site and provide additional functionality. As a result all of the links have changed, and had broken on the data4nr site. We have now searched through the website and fixed broken links for the following variables:

• Births by country of birth
• Births outside of Marriage
• Business demography
• Civil Partnerships
• Conceptions - Under 18s
• Congenital anomaly statistics
• Deaths by area of residence - monthly counts
• Employee jobs by broad industry group
• Flag 4 GP Registrations
• Gross Value Added (GVA) per head
• International and internal migration estimates
• Life Expectancy aged 65
• Life expectancy at birth
• Life expectancy at birth for wards
• Life Expectancy: Healthy and Disability-Free Years for wards
• Live births
• Live births by age of mother
• Live births by ethnicity by area of usual residence of mother
• Local migration indicators
• Mid Year Population Estimates (MYEs): components of population change
• Mortality: infant and perinatal
• Population by country of birth and nationality
• Public and private sector employee job estimates
• Standardised mortality ratio
• Teenage pregnancy: quarterly conceptions
• Teenage pregnancy: Under 18 conception rate and percentage leading to abortion
• Unemployment estimates: Local areas
• VAT registered businesses by turnover size
• VAT registered enterprises: Survival rates
• Workless households

NHS indicator portal

The NHS IC have developed a new indicator portal (effectively a neighbourhood statistics for health data) http://indicators.ic.nhs.uk. This indicator portal brings together data all indicators from the Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base (also known as NCHOD and the Compendium of Population Health Indicators) and the Local Basket of Inequalities Indicators and key datasets from the public health observatories on a single searchable website. We now link the following indicators on the indicator portal

• Accidental falls: Mortality rate
• Acute sickness
• Alcohol Profile:  Mortality from chronic liver disease - females
• Alcohol Profile:  Mortality from chronic liver disease - males
• Asthma: Mortality rate
• Bladder cancer: Mortality rate
• Breast cancer: Mortality rate
• Bronchitis and emphysema: Mortality rate
• Cancer mortality
• Cervical cancer: Mortality rate
• Chronic renal failure: Mortality rate
• Chronic rheumatic heart disease: Mortality rate
• Colorectal cancer: Mortality rate
• Conceptions for those aged under 16
• Coronary Heart Disease: Mortality rate
• Diabetes: Mortality rate
• Emergency hospital admissions and timely surgery: fractured proximal femur
• Emergency hospital admissions for children with asthma
• Emergency hospital admissions for children with lower respiratory tract infections
• Emergency hospital admissions for diabetes
• Emergency readmissions to hospital within 28 days of discharge
• Epilepsy: Mortality rate
• Fracture of femur: Mortality rate
• Heart disease mortality
• Hospital admissions: Accidents
• Incidence of all skin cancers (all)
• Incidence of bladder cancer
• Incidence of breast cancer(all)
• Incidence of cancers (all)
• Incidence of colorectal  cancer (all)
• Incidence of lung cancer(all)
• Incidence of malignant melanoma
• Incidence of oesophageal cancer
• ·         Incidence of prostate cancer(all)
• ·         Incidence of stomach cancer
• ·         Leukaemia: Mortality rate
• ·         Lung cancer: mortality rate
• ·         Mortality from causes amenable to health care
• ·         Mortality from gastric, duodenal and peptic ulcers
• ·         Mortality from Hodgkin’s disease
• ·         Mortality from hypertensive disease
• ·         Mortality from infectious and parasitic disease
• ·         Mortality from land transport accidents
• ·         Mortality from malignant melanoma
• ·         Mortality from skull fracture and intracranial injury
• ·         Mortality rate from all accidents
• ·         Neuroses: Emergency hospital admissions
• ·         NI 120 - All-age all cause mortality
• ·         Number of childcare places available
• ·         Number of recorded racial incidents per 100,000 resident population
• ·         Oesophageal cancer: Mortality rate
• ·         Pneumonia: Mortality rate
• ·         Prostate cancer: Mortality rate
• ·         Schizophrenia: Emergency hospital admissions
• ·         Stomach cancer: Mortality rate
• ·         Stroke: Deaths within 30 days of emergency admission to hospital
• ·         Stroke: Emergency hospital admissions
• ·         Strokes: Mortality rate
• ·         Suicide mortality rates
• ·         Tuberculosis: mortality rate
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  All accidents
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  All cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  All causes
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Coronary Heart Disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Hodgkin’s disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Malignant melanoma
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Stroke
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL):  Suicide
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Asthma
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Bladder cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Breast cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Bronchitis and emphysema
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Cervical cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Chronic renal failure
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Colorectal cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Diabetes
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Due to accidental falls: Mortality rate
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Epilepsy
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Gastric, duodenal and peptic ulcers
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Hypertensive disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Infectious and parasitic disease
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Land transport accidents
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Leukaemia
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Lung cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Oesophageal cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Pneumonia
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Prostate cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Stomach cancer
• ·         Years of Life Lost (YLL): Tuberculosis

However in transferring to the new site, existing data links were not maintained or forwarded automatically. This has been a cause of frustration for many users of ONS data, including Data4r users.

We have prioritised updating these broken links in Data4nr, with the majority of links fixed in the latest update (November 22nd). There are some links we have not yet been able to update, but will revise as soon as we have the information from the ONS help team. In the meantime, please email us at comments@data4nr.net if you come across any more broken links to ONS (or indeed other) datasets.

This indicator portal brings together data all indicators from the Clinical and Health Outcomes Knowledge Base (also known as NCHOD and the Compendium of Population Health Indicators) and the Local Basket of Inequalities Indicators and key datasets from the public health observatories on a single searchable website.

The population health indicators currently in it can help you to:

• Compare the demographic profile of your local area with other regions and national averages
• Understand what the population health challenges are in your area and how they may be changing over time
• Explore the diverse range of factors that influence health inequalities
• Build a picture of the current state of health inequalities in your area
• Inform annual health reviews and equity audits
• Provide measurements for service planning, performance management and other success criteria

New sets of indicators will be added to the Indicator Portal over time, allowing users to view the Compendium indicators alongside data on other topics.

We are surveying Data4nr users to find out which parts of the service provide real value, and which future developments should be prioritised.

Please help by taking the 5-minute survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/data4nr - thank you!