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Welcome to the SINe Data Guides section.

Here you'll find useful resources about data interpretation and understanding evidence to help with your work. Use the category selector below to search through guides that we have created (select 'Somerset') or ones from external organisations which we link to (select 'External Organisations'). In the right-hand column, you'll find an RSS feed of our data guides. Subscribe to this to be kept up to date on updates and additions.

Featured Guide

Somerset Interactive Boundaries [pdf / 2.40MB]

Data Guides

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Title	Details
Area and Community Profiles	Guidance about creating area and community profiles.
Beginners Guide to UK Geographies	Useful information about statistical geographies published by the Office for National Statistics.
Best Practice in Statistical Presentation (ONS)	A guide published by the Office for National Statistics about presenting data give examples of good and bad practise
Building An Area Profile (Audit Commission)	A step-by-step guide to building an Area Profile using the Audit Commission's online area profile tools.
Census Data Guide (ONS)	A guide to accessing and using Census data effectively.
Customer Insight Case Study	Information on how customer insight has been used to make Council Tax payments more efficient.
Finding out about your local community	Information on local area data.
GSS Geography Codes (January 2011)	Lists of current GSS geography codes to former codes for Somerset. Look-up tables providing basic lists of old to new codes for the most frequently used geographies. Details for this were extracted from national lists on the ONS website from January 2011.
Guide to Data Quality	Guidance on why it is important to have high quality data, and the principles to follow when collating, preparing and reporting on data.
Neighbourhood Statistics (NeSS) User Guide (ONS)	A complete guide about how to use the NeSS web site to find local area statistics.
Neighbourhood Statistics Analysis Toolkit (ONS)	Provides practical guidance about how to choose and analyse local area data.
Neighbourhood Statistics Online Training (ONS)	Provides interactive modules designed to help users make best use of the NeSS web site and its data.
NOMIS (Official Labour Market Statistics)	Guide Information for first time users of NOMIS (the National Online Manpower Information Service) explaining how to use the site and the type of labour market information available.
Segmenting Somerset with MOSAIC	Information on what MOSAIC is, how accurate it is and what it can tell us.
Somerset Interactive Boundaries	Produced by the PIU at Somerset County Council, this interactive PDF map allows users to overlay boundary layers from Parish up to County Level to better understand Somerset Geographies.

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