The advanced tables allow you to create a table from any of the data sources in InfoBank. Once you have created your table, you can export this to excel and copy and paste into other documents for your own analysis.
This is a geographical area. There are six different area types in Diabetes InfoBank:
This refers to the base geographical area in Diabetes InfoBank, it is usually the primary care organisation.
This helps you to compare data from your local area with regional and national averages. In advanced tables, you can select to see how data from your area compares to a region or nation. In locality profiles, you can also select to see the difference between your local area and a region or nation.
The data explorer helps you to find information on a topic by using key search terms which then finds the related indicators.
Diabetes InfoBank is a tool to bring together sources of information on various topics (eg education) and display the information either in a ‘locality profile’, via interactive maps, charts and graphs or through tables.
There are four locality profiles:
The profiles contain information about healthcare services in your area. The profile covers information on topics such as:
The interactive, maps, charts and graphs are organised by topic. They show the variation in healthcare services across the nations and regions and by year.
Metadata is the supporting information relating to the data in the tables or charts. If you would like to know the source of the data, or an interpretation of the data, this can be found in the Metadata.
Information from surveys which relate to topics, for example, eye screening, emotional and psychological support, children’s services and prevalence are referred to as themes.