TY - JOUR T1 - Providing census data for general practice. 1. Feasibility JF - The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners JO - J R Coll Gen Pract SP - 448 LP - 450 VL - 37 IS - 303 AU - Allen Hutchinson AU - Christopher Foy AU - Jane Smyth Y1 - 1987/10/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/37/303/448.abstract N2 - The availability of census data to general practice is limited by the form of publication, restricted access to computerized data and the technical difficulties of linking computerized information to a practice population. In a feasibility study it is shown how a population registered with a general practice may be linked through postcodes to computerized enumeration district data. Examples of the data available are discussed together with current problems of postcode/enumeration district mismatch. Suggestions are made for ensuring that general practitioners have access to the 1991 census data. ER -