These include the Census of Population area based statistics and the associated digitised boundary data.
Spatial data is hard to use.
Census data is voluminous. This will allow users to visually explore census data sets for their area of interest supporting the approach of 'visual thinking', before data is downloaded for use locally. A Graphic depicting a typical cdv session using Leicestershire 1991 Census data set Using cdv a researcher can produce multiple, linked spatial and statistical views, of a data set. In the graphic below, the age-distribution of the population for the county of Leicestershire is being investigated. Dot-plots corresponding to the age distributions are also shown.