Datasets / Places Database


Places Database

Published By Department for Communities and Local Government

Issued about 10 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

A database containing context data about a place (Local Authority), performance data, statistics and some point data (location of schools). The data ranges from Local Authority level down to Lower Super Output Area. Data can be extracted as XML, Excel or CSV. In Oct 2009 the data will be accessible via web services (machine to machine) for loading into LSP Performance Management Systems, Local Information Systems, Regional and Sub Regional Observatories. There is a total of approx. 9.5 million statistical datapoints in this set