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Data Support Units

Census.ac.uk, home of the ESRC Census Programme, provides services to allow users in UK higher and further education institutions to access data from the 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001 UK censuses.

The Programme is delivered by a number of units, each with its own area of data expertise.

Census.ac.uk Registration Programme Web Site Based at the UK Data Archive at the University of Essex.	Census Dissemination Unit Census Area Statistics Postcode Lookup Tables GeoConvert Based at Mimas, at the University of Manchester.	Centre for Longitudinal Study Information and User Support ONS Longitudinal Study for England and Wales Based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Centre for Interaction Data Estimation and Research Migration Data Travel-to-work Statistics Based at the University of Leeds and the University of St Andrews.	Longitudinal Studies Centre - Scotland Scottish Longitudinal Study Based at the University of St Andrews and the General Register Office for Scotland.	Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Research Support Unit Northern Ireland Longitudinal Study Based at the Centre for Public Health, Queen’s University, Belfast.
Samples of Anonymised Records Samples of Anonymised Records Based at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester.	UKBORDERS Digitised Boundary Datasets Based at EDINA, at the University of Edinburgh.

The Programme services have been funded from 2006-11 by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) with additional support from the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and encompass data acquisition and specialist data support units. The new round of the Programme which commenced on 1 August 2006 includes further development of the access arrangements of the Programme web site and a round of research and development projects, for which a call is currently underway.

The overall Programme co-ordinator is Professor David Martin at the University of Southampton.