A 🧵on use of Census 2021 Travel to Work data.
TL;DR: Just don't.
Census happened during lockdown. Only key workers were supposed to travel to work and avoid public transport.
@bathnes is consulting on its local plan and this section is painful. 1/
beta.bathnes.gov.uk/local-plan-opt…
TL;DR: Just don't.
Census happened during lockdown. Only key workers were supposed to travel to work and avoid public transport.
@bathnes is consulting on its local plan and this section is painful. 1/
beta.bathnes.gov.uk/local-plan-opt…
You cannot say this:
"The maps show that a greater proportion of people travel to work by car and travel a greater distance in the more rural parts of the District, and also the Somer Valley."
You can say the majority of key workers did this during lockdown. But that's it 2/
"The maps show that a greater proportion of people travel to work by car and travel a greater distance in the more rural parts of the District, and also the Somer Valley."
You can say the majority of key workers did this during lockdown. But that's it 2/
Scotland postponed its Census to specifically avoid this issue and now has good data. For the next decade we're going to have to deal with councils forgetting that the travel to work data is bad. @ONS should step in and remove it from the portal or put big warning popups on it 3/
It's easy to blame officers for not doing their job but the @ONS made the decision to not postpone the Census, despite many asking them to and are not doing enough to prevent misinterpretation of the data.
So we end up in these types of situations. /End
So we end up in these types of situations. /End
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