InFuse is a revolutionary new interface to UK Census aggregate datasets that combines recent innovations in dissemination technologies to make it easier for users to:
- Find data of relevance to them by providing simple ways of searching across entire datasets
- Understand data by providing information about its meaning (metadata) within the InFuse interface, and bundled with data in downloads
Please give InFuse a go at http://infuse.mimas.ac.uk.
Access to InFuse is currently limited to members of UK Higher and Further Education Institutions, and is controlled by UK Access Management Federation (Shibboleth) authentication.
InFuse will continue to develop to provide new and improved features, as well as access to an increasing range of datasets. The initial release provides access to aggregate statistics for England and Wales from the UK 2001 Census. Aggregate statistics for Scotland and Northern Ireland will be added soon, together with digital boundary data in GIS formats. Aggregate statistics and boundaries from the UK 1991 Census are being processed for release later in 2011. Aggregate statistics from the 2011 Census are expected to be available for release from mid-2012 onwards.
The help pages and FAQs accessible from the interface provide support for using InFuse and some initial answers to obvious questions. Please contact us using the links on the interface if you have any comments or further questions, which will play an important part in the continuing development of InFuse.
InFuse is developed and provided as a service by the Census Dissemination Unit (CDU), one of the units of the Economic and Social Research Council’s Census Programme, based within Mimas at The University of Manchester. InFuse will eventually supersede the CDU’s current Casweb interface, but the two services will continue to run in parallel for some time.
