title: Indexing the census:  a by-product of the simulation of whole populations by means of SAS and SAR data.
abstract: "Amongst the new output formats adopted for the 1991 [U.K.] census were the Small Area and Local Base Statistics tables and the Samples of Anonymised Records.  During an attempt to combine these data sources to estimate whole populations, a need was recognised for a computer algorithm to aggregate SAR data flexibly into LBS and SAS table look-alikes.  This paper is a report on progress in the development of such an algorithm, including the concomitant development of a meta-database of census tables and variables required as an input to the algorithm.  Out of this work a user-friendly, freely disseminable version of the census meta-database has been created, of interest to all census users."
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D019049:Developed Countries; D001330:Electronic Data Processing; D005060:Europe; D008722:Methods; D011154:Population Characteristics; D012106:Research; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Area Analysis; Census; Data Analysis; Data Files; Developed Countries; Europe; Methodological Studies; Northern Europe; Population Statistics; Research Methodology; United Kingdom