A few more Census 2011 statistics about car and van availability in Edinburgh City

Question 12 (Household section)

 

The number of households in the City of Edinburgh reporting 'none' to the question above was 89,034 (40% of all households).

The number of people resident in households with no access to a car or van in City of Edinburgh were 149718 (32% of all people in households).

This percentage varies by age and sex in the following way - lowest rates of no access to car in the age groups 0 to 15, 35 to 49 and 59 to 64.

The first blog in Nov 2013  compares percentage of households without a car or van available by area within Edinburgh
http://www.celiamac58.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/census-statistics-on-car-ownership-for.html

www.scotlandscensus.gov.uk

Table DC3405SC - Car or van availability by long-term health problem or disability by sex by age

Table KS404SC - Car of van availability (table only available currently in data warehouse)

Geography teachers using Census - example of a population pyramid for Ardnamurchan peninsula

Yesterday I ran a session for  Edinburgh University students studying for a postgraduate diploma in maths and geography, introducing them to Census Data explorer.

The following was an example which was suggested - relating to a student carrying out a project following a field trip to Ardnamurchan.

I used table LC1117SC (age by sex) to summarise the characteristics of the usual resident population in this area.

The following is the definition of Ardnamurchan included in the website Argyll Online

Ardnamurchan is the landmass stretching from Loch Linnhe in the east and the Atlantic in the west and includes the lands of Morvern, Sunart, Ardnamurchan and Moidart. The last of these has traditionally been in Lochaber rather than Argyll so sadly is beyond the scope of Argyll Online, although we include some useful background information on it.

The geographic area of Ardnamurchan can be estimated using a number of different geographic units including

- civil parishes of Ardnamurchan, Morvern and Ardgour

For the purposes of comparison the following use other geographic area to approximate Ardnamurchan peninsula

- civil parish

- datazones

- LC postcode sectors

- output areas

Having decided on which area to choose the population structure can be illustrated using a population pyramid.  The following was created by using a template published on a website for a training organisation -  Kurtosis

Population of Ardnamurchan civil parish area
(green - male,  orange - female)