Purpose of the Audit:

• Purpose of the Audit:

• Before adding new datasets to WICID, we needed to know what was out there!

• To identify and evaluate sources of interaction data in the UK that might complement the current census datasets held in WICID

• To make recommendations relating to the inclusion of the most useful datasets in a new, expanded version of WICID called INTERACTION

Notes:

Whilst detailed and comprehensive, UK census datasets have the obvious limitation of being decennial – other datasets, whilst maybe lacking data coverage of census are temporally more regular.

Datasets collated on a more frequent basis provide an opportunity for more complete temporal coverage.

Whilst other datasets are in existence to study internal migration, their ease of access to researchers is limited. WICID allows for a flexible, query building approach which facilitates easy access to the information people want through selection of Origins, Destinations and a range of disaggregated variables – age, sex etc… Inclusion of additional datasets in wicid will add real value to the service.