Jul 12, 2015
Why use local data?
• To deepen your understanding of older people and their needs in
your area
• To understand the key drivers for funders and commissioners
• To complement and support your qualitative expert knowledge
• To support the identification of local priorities and hot spots
• To ensure your services are targeted where they are most needed
• To develop a dynamic planning process
• To help you to measure impact
Benefits of using the tool
At a recent staff away day for a local Age UK I presented the stats tool to staff to demonstrate the level of intelligence that can be called upon from Age UK. This is increasingly important as we move in to a more clinical world of commissioning and have to demonstrate the worth of our services in more quantitative ways. The level of detail that we now have at our finger tips impressed the staff and I am sure they will make good use of this impressive resource.
Alison Waters, Age UK, London & South
I just had the link for the Local Statistics tool forwarded to me and had to comment on what a useful and well-constructed spreadsheet it is. To be able to access so much London borough information with just a couple of clicks is very valuable indeed.
Ben Donovan, Age UK, London
Key features of this version
• Data for all 365 Local/Unitary authorities + Home NationsMore areas
• e.g. Service data (e.g. Health and social services)
• Lifestyle dataNew topics
• Select an area for a profile comparing this to your regional and national averageLocal Area Profiles
• instantly see how your area compares to the national pictureMaps
• Reliable estimates based on official statisticsImproved data quality
• focus on making it user friendly Simplicity
Data themes
• Population
• Living Arrangements
• Life Expectancy
• Health / Health Services
• Social Care & Carers
• Mortality & End of Life
• Pensions, Poverty and Exclusion
• Employment and Lifestyle
Accessing the spreadsheetThe most up-to-date version is on
AGEnet
Updates are announced in the weekly
Signpost bulletin
To access the tool, click on:
Resources
Information and Advice
Information Resources
Local Statistics
Maximising the screen
1. Click the
‘maximise’ button
2. Click the left hand
arrow to all
worksheets are
visible
1. Click the
‘maximise’ button
2. Click ‘’ to go to
the start of the list of
worksheets
Use the Index worksheet to navigate
to where you want to go
• The spreadsheet
contains 9
worksheets
• Click on the ‘Index’
worksheet for an
explanation of each
worksheetClick on the Index worksheet
Finding the Indicator you need
Click on the worksheet ‘List of Indicators’
Scroll down through the list in Column B to find the item of
interest
Click on the link to go to that item in the ‘Data’ worksheet
Browse other columns in this worksheet provide more
information about each indicator
3. Click on a link to go
to the desired indicator
1. Click on the ‘List of
Indicators’ worksheet
2. Scroll down to browse
through the indicator list
Using the ‘Data’ worksheet
The ‘Data’ worksheet lists areas in rows and indicators in columns
Nations and English regional totals are listed first, followed by
local authorities
social care county councils
Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland local authorities/districts
To find your area either scroll down through the list
Or use the ‘search’ function
To search for a local area
• Click at the top of column
D to highlight the column
• Click on ‘find and select’
• Type in part of the area
name
• Click ‘find next’ if a
different area comes up at
first
• Highlight the row for that
area to read across for all
the indicators
1. Click to highlight
Column D
2. Click ‘Find and
Select’ and type in
area name
Using Social Care data
• The areas responsible for
providing social care are a
mix of local/unitary
authorities and county
councils
• In areas where
responsibility lies with the
local authority, the social
care indicators can be
found in the relevant row
• In areas where
responsibility lies with a
county council, data can be
found by scrolling down
where these are listed
below the local authorities
Local Area Profiles
• This new tool provides an
overview of statistics on older
people in your area and
compares this to the regional and
national average
• Simply select an area from the
drop-down list and the profile is
created automatically
• You can print or save the profile
as a .pdf by clicking the buttons
(you may need to enable macros
in your version of Excel)
• Future profiles will allow
comparison of two or more
individual areas
Select chose authority from
drop-down menu
Maps of selected indicators
• A selection of maps provide a
snapshot of how your area
compares with the national
pattern
• To adjust the size for a better
view, either
• use the zoom feature within
excel,
• or click on the map and drag
and corners
• or cut and paste into another
document
• The maps are .jpeg files and
can be cut and pasted into other
documents for your own use
Lower level analysis
• This worksheet tells you
how to get data for
different geographies
including smaller areas
• These include Clinical
Commissioning Groups
and Lower Super Output
Areas.
• Data for smaller areas
provide a more precise
picture but are only
available for a few
indicators
• In future we hope to
include these in the tool
Future plans
• This is part of a longer-term programme to improve the accessibility of local
data on older people
• We hope further releases will include
• More area comparison tools
• Expanded range of indicators drawing on Census 2011 and other data
• Data for a range of different geographies
• Ability to select different age groups e.g. today’s pensioners,
tomorrow’s pensioners, those aged 85 & over
• Training in how to use evidence
• Tools to allow users to create local maps and do more interactive
analysis
New web tool on the Knowledge Hub
• We developed an interactive map
for the Party Conferences showing
data by Parliamentary Constituency
• Received requests from a range of
people including local partners who
find the data useful when dealing
with their MP
• This has been added to our website
• To access use the link below, or go
to the Age UK website, click on ‘For
professionals’ at the top then
‘Knowledge Hub’ from menu at
RHS
http://www.ageuk.org.uk/professional-resources-home/knowledge-hub-
evidence-statistics/interactive-maps-of-ageing-/
Feedback
• There are currently 26,000 data items in the spreadsheet. We have done
some intensive checking but there may still be errors. Please let us know if
something looks odd
• We need your feedback on the content and design of the tool to feed into
our future planning e.g.
• Comments on design and usability
• Comments on the sort of comparison tools that would be useful
• Requests for data items
• Send your feedback to [email protected] or contact me
[email protected] / tel: 0203 033 1381