Talk:GSS coding system

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Luton

Erm. Why exactly is Luton listed under Cambridgeshire? Lozleader 18:41, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I was aiming for Huntingdonshire and missed! There are also a bunch of obselete codes in the 56 and upwards range for the 1974-1996 welsh principal areas that I may add. Morwen - Talk 18:43, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Two-tier counties & districts

Would it be worth expanding:

01-07   obsolete, were Greater London & the metropolitan counties

For completeness (and also to assist with anyone researching how the coding system worked prior to the last lot of reorganisation) -- Ratarsed 13:16, 30 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Super Output Areas

It is a good concept, but why this strange name of "Super Output Areas"? – Kaihsu (talk) 22:12, 11 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article confuses terms. There are lots of Output Areas in England, with, as they say, about 100 households in each. These are then combined to create Lower layer Super Output Areas (often referred to as LSOAs), and there are about 6 OAs in each LSOA. Then Middle layer Super Output Areas (MSOAs) are created by combining about 4 LSOAs. So I guess 'super' basically means combined/bigger.

The later Super Output Section looks OK, but the first section has a one sentence paragraph which is incorrect (OAs don't = SOAs, plus there are 32,482 LSOAs, and and a lot more OAs (I'm not sure how many)) and need changing to reflect this. – C.Heward (talk • contribs) 16:36, 8 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]