Geographic products include digital Output Area boundaries for use in geographical information systems and look-up files which describe the postcodes that form Output Area and indicate which Output Areas form a range of higher adminsitrative and other geographies. Tese look-up files can be used to aggregate results for Output Areas to higher areas or to link non-census data coded to postcodes to the ‘denominators’ provided by Census statistics.
The products are generally supplied without charge, although material costs may be recovered. The following products are available:
Ward names and codes lookup list in excel format
Boundaries for all Output Areas in England and Wales in MID/MIF and Shapefile formats (DVD)
Boundaries for all Output Areas in England and Wales in MID/MIF and Shapefile formats (DVD)
Boundaries for all Output Areas in England and Wales in high and low resolution MID/MIF format (CD3)
Output Area to higher areas & Postcode to Output Area lookup tables
Urban area and settlement boundary CD
2001 Output Area to 1991 ward lookup table
2001 Output Area to 2004 ward lookup table
2001 Output Area to Primary Care Organisation (PCO) lookup table
