Output Area to Region Lookup for England, December 2011

Office for National Statistics provides a lookup table mapping Output Areas to higher-level regions in England as of December 2011. The dataset is available under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on the platform in July 2026. Its specific row count and column details are not provided in the available metadata.

Use Cases

• Aggregating census statistics from Output Areas to regional levels based on the described lookup relationship.
• Joining socio-economic data using the implied geographic codes to perform regional analysis in England.
• Validating or standardizing geographic identifiers in datasets covering England for the 2011 period.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• The dataset has a specific geographic and temporal reference point (England, December 2011).
• It is distributed under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, which limits suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality and structure require manual inspection after download.
• The data reflects a specific snapshot from 2011, which may not represent current administrative boundaries.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Time Range

December 2011

Freshness

Last updated on the platform 2026-07-08 13:31:27.957462; the underlying data is from 2011.

Geography

England