Geographic policy
ONS Geography policy provides a geographic referencing framework to enable the production of accurate and consistent statistics. Our policy:
- provides a single definitive source of geographic information (GI) and metadata
- provides advice and best practice guidance on using GI data, and GIS tools and software to reference, analyse, and present statistics
- leads on initiatives across the GSS, central government and beyond, to harmonise the use of GI in the production of statistics
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Best practice guidance
Information on a standard approach to the use of geography in statistics
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Gridlink®
The brand name for a harmonised method of allocating unit postcodes to geographic areas
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Geographic Referencing Infrastructure (GRI)
Providing ONS with the geographic referencing to support world class statistics
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Coding and Naming for Statistical Geographies
ONS will 'go-live' with new codes on 1 January 2011. ONS Geography will use new codes in parallel with old codes from 1 January 2010
