Brum Data
We’ve compiled a list of as many data sets about Birmingham available and downloadable online as possible, separated into categories. To add to this list please leave a comment below.
GENERAL
Be Heard – Birmingham consultation database
Birmingham city council forthcoming meetings and committees
Ward open space plans – 39 districts
RSS feeds for West Midlands information across all subjects
List of data sets by topic (inc Crime&safety, economic deprivation, health and care, and housing, for Birmingham from National Statistics. NB some of the data is outdated by 4-8 years
Be Birmingham
Be Birmingham has launched a new site which will allow access to hundreds of data sets, searchable by postcode area and with the ability to draw out unique sets from those already given. The site address is http://local.bebirmingham.org.uk/
Data sets on West Midlands Regional Observatory
The West Midlands Regional Observatory stores 220 dataset downloads on the following topics. Each topic has roughly 2-5 downloads and is easily navigated from their site. Here’s a pipe for the feed of all updates to the site. Or here’s a slimmer one (thanks to Gavin Wray) of just the data sets.
- Contextual monitoring for urban and rural renaissance
- Cross-cutting skills issues across sectors
- Economic impact of migrant workers in the West Midlands
- Economic inclusion research
- Economic strategy and monitoring framework
- Energy strategy monitoring
- Enterprise and innovation research
- Environmental skills technology review
- Graduate employment in the West Midlands
- Indices of deprivation
- Investment in skills by Employers
- Leitch Research
- Low carbon economy
- Measuring the scale of challenge
- Raising aspirations research
- Recession monitoring
- Regional Lifestyle Survey 2005
Audit Commision
The Audit Commission have launched a new website – OnePlace – to store independent information. The website shows Comprehensive Area Assessment data for six independent inspectorates.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
Here are a number of data sets received after freedom of information requests to Birmingham City Council:
- General FOI requests to BCC
- Unoccupied residential council buildings (RSS) – correspondance
- Long term unoccupied commercial premises in Birmingham City Council area
- CCTV cameras controlled by West Midlands Travel executive – correspondance
- Birmingham car clamping/removal policy and enforcement – correspondance
- Parking ticket data
- Car parks under council control (RSS) – pdf
POLICE/CRIME
West Midlands Police
- Monthly performance summary by region (with chart explanations)
- Financial information
- Crime statistics
- Requesting a document
Local Crime figures for 2008/2009
HEALTH
Community Health Profiles
Provides a snapshot to the health profile of each local authority, including Birmingham:
http://www.apho.org.uk/default.aspx?QN=P_HEALTH_PROFILES
West Midlands Public Health Observatory
http://www.wmpho.org.uk/
NHS application for developers
EDUCATION
Mode of transport for pupils with distances
ECONOMICS
Marketing Birmingham
http://www.marketingbirmingham.com/resources/research/
Marketing Birmingham stores some interesting research reports on leisure, tourism and business.
Birmingham Economy & Quarterly Economic Survey
This is more commentary than a specific data-set:
http://www.birmingham-chamber.com/Influencing-Government/Key-Business-Issues/Economy-and-Quarterly-Economic-Survey.aspx
Birmingham Economy has a number of very useful data sets for employment, demographics and profiles of wards across Birmingham
http://www.birminghameconomy.org.uk/
Labour Market Statistics
The official statistics from NOMIS
This is an online tool which gives access to economic data on employment, number of businesses, jobcentre figures and more. Lauran Amery has made a useful methodological guide on how to use Nomis, available here: http://www.wmro.org/resources/res.aspx?p=/CmsResource/resourceFilename/2663/Cultural-Research-Methodological-Guidance-For-LAs_v1_LA.doc
CULTURE
Data from the Cultural Research Intelligence Group:
http://www.wmro.org/cultureTemplate.aspx/Home/CulturalObservatory/CulturalResearchIntelligenceGroup
Data on participation in culture:
http://www.culture.gov.uk/reference_library/research_and_statistics/6230.aspx
Data on participation in sport is available here:
http://www.sportengland.org/research/active_people_survey/active_people_survey_2/local_results.aspx
The Place Survey 2008 looks at satisfaction with a range of cultural facilities in each local authority area:
http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/corporate/statistics/placesurvey2008
ENVIRONMENT
Environment Agency – what’s in your back yard
Household recycling centres in Birmingham
TRAVEL
A very useful list here.
The link you gave to the Observatory’s pipe aggregates all updates from our site (blog, web page changes, publications, datasets, events, and so on).
If you prefer something slimmer, there’s a dedicated feed just for our datasets.
Thanks Gavin – we’ve added the link to the page.
Birmingham City Council will be listing its open data at http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/open-data
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The information on this page about the West Midlands Regional Observatory is out of date. It looks like the Observatory has vanished or changed drastically. There are some pages about a Regional Observatory from Marketing Birmingham, which include some reports but no downloadable datasets that I could find. http://www.wmro.org is now the website for something called World Music Radio Online.
Thanks Pete for the comment – this page was created in 2009 and the site hasn’t been updated since probably 2010.