We’re interested in hearing how you’d like us to approach these dataset releases. An option could be for us to release 50 datasets from 2001 which cover the same type of topics as the ones in 2011, then equivalent datasets from 1991 and back to 1971, thus building a time series as it were of data. It’s just one idea, you may of course have other ideas as to the priorities we should use , please get in touch and help shape how this process goes.
We’ll take care of and maintain Casweb thailand rcs data and Infuse, but won’t add any data or develop them any further. We’ll also move away from impenetrable acronyms to name our data access platform (although ‘Cenzilla’ was mooted at one point…)
Ultimately, we aim to free the data for better discovery and, in the spirit of frictionless data, make it easy to use the data for sharing and utilisation whether that’s in CSV, Excel, R, or Hadoop.
Please let Rob know what data combinations you’re using from censuses from 1971 up to help us structure our retrieval schedule.