 In this short video, we will show you how to download boundary data from the UK Data Service. The Boundary Data Selector tool offers a range of digitised boundary data in several GIS formats, including boundaries designed for use with census data. To start, go to ukdataservice.ac.uk, select Learning Hub, Census, then Census Boundary Data. Scroll down to the section on Obtaining Boundary Data, where you'll find a link to the Boundary Data Selector. There are two tabs where you make selections, what and where, and format. First, let's select our boundary type and area on the what and where tab. Select the country that you require data for from the country drop-down. Next, select the type of data from the geography drop-down. I'm selecting census. Next, I select the date. I'm working with 2011 census data, so I select 2011 and click find. The box underneath is now populated with all of the data sets that are available for my selections. I can only download one of these data sets at a time. Click on the boundary type that you want to download, for example the English Census Merge Awards. Then click on the list areas button. I now have a list of areas to select from. Note that the areas shown will differ depending on the boundary data set that you select. So let's select our areas. I can select more than one area holding down the control key and clicking on each area that I require. For some data sets you can click expand selection to see smaller geographies for the area selected. I can select any of these smaller areas if I wish, but for this example I'll stick with the districts. The search summary at the bottom of the screen lists my selections. It also tells me the current data format, shapefile, and that the data will be delivered in a zip file. If you're happy with those options you can go ahead and click extract boundary data. To change this default method click on the format tab. For this data set there are four formats available. Shape, this is actually shapefile format and works with a range of GIS software. KML, which is commonly used on Google Earth. Map Info, for use with Map Info GIS software and CSV. I know shape works with my software so I'll leave that selected. Next you can select whether to zip up your data files or not. For shapefile I would recommend using zip to make it easier to store all your files together. So now we select extract boundary data. I receive a confirmation message on screen that my data is currently being prepared. If you need to go and do something else you can bookmark this page and return later. Your download request will be kept for seven days before being deleted. When the files are ready you will see files extracted on the page. Click on the file and save to suitable folder. Next you need to unzip the data. Go to the folder where you saved the file and right click on it. Select an unzip or extract option and extract your data. Now we can view our data files. For this download we have a shapefile which covers our requested districts. Keep all the other files with the same name as your shapefile as they are all required in order for your boundary data to function correctly in GIS software. We hope this video was useful. If you would like to find out more about Census Boundary Data and Geographies you can check out the information on the UK Data Service website.