About
Service availability and accessibility has been a key rural policy issue for many years. In order to monitor changing levels of service availability, we combine datasets that show where outlets of particular services can be found, with postcode level information on the distribution of households.
The service location data is sourced from a number of different Governmental, non-Governmental and commercial organisations.
The Technical Report (updated July 2009) has more information about how these figures are produced
Unfortunately we're unable to make available the datasets showing where services are actually located. Please be aware that it's not possible to extract this information from any of the files below.
Coverage
Data from 2000 to present. Topics include:
- Availability of Services
- Distribution of Service Outlets
- Output Area Data
Access
Several XLS files available for download linked to from main page.
Some material is available in plain text, such as:
Openness
Copyright page says content is under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0. Not clear if PSI Click Use License is or should also be available. Also not clear if this license is supposed to apply to datasets.
