Understanding Society User Support

Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

We aim to respond to simple queries within 48 hours and more complex issues within 7 working days. While we will aim to keep to this response times due to the current coronavirus (COVID-19) related situation it may take us longer to respond.

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Understanding Society User Support Team

Hello Albert,

According to our data team, there are no current plans to make LSOA 2011 apply to BHPS waves. As documented, nearly all the geographies are extracted from the appropriate ONS Postcode Directories. As LSOA 2011 did not exist at the time of the BHPS waves they are not available for the BHPS stand-alone dataset series and hence why they were not made available in the harmonised BHPS waves included with the Understanding Society series. When the BHPS waves were harmonised, the approach was carried over for those waves.

However, the request would be analysed in a future internal committee to consider including the Census geographies in the harmonised BHPS waves. If it is approved, the results will be made public.

What you could do is use 2001 LSOA data with the tables (from external sources e.g. ONS) showing how LSOA 2001 maps onto LSOA 2011.

Hope this helps.

Best wishes,
Understanding Society User Support Team