We now need to specify where we would like to download our census data for – this could be anywhere, but we will focus on West Yorkshire. Use the on-screen options to locate West Yorkshire by selecting the country (England), then ‘select lower geographies’, then select the region (Yorkshire and The Humber), then select ‘Select Counties’, then select the County (West Yorkshire). The illustrations below step you through this process:
In Step 1, we specify the country to select. Then choose ‘select lower geographies’ to select a region within England.
In Step for West Yorkshire by specifying the region in which it belongs.
In Step 3, we are able to select the greece rcs data West Yorkshire county having searched through the country and region to find this. Here we can click the ‘Select output Level’ button as we do not need to continue our search.If we wanted to continue and filter Leeds, Bradford etc. we could do.
Before we choose the variables to download we first need to specify a geography. Notice the four options presented to you at the bottom of the screen: District, ST Wards, CAS Wards and OA. The smaller the geography, the more detail you will get – you can think of this as being similar to cutting a cake, you can cut it into big or small pieces. In this example, these pieces range from Districts (5 pieces – one for each of Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Calderdale and Kirklees) to OAs (7,131 tiny pieces). Let’s select CAS Wards which breaks West Yorkshire down into a manageable 126 areas – select CAS Wards followed by the ‘Select Data.