A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses

Wyszomierski, Jakub, Longley, Paul A, Singleton, Alex D ORCID: 0000-0002-2338-2334, Gale, Christopher and O'Brien, Oliver (2023) A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses. The Geographical Journal.

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Abstract

<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>UK‐wide multivariate neighbourhood classifications have been built using small area population data following every census since 1971, and have been built using Output Area geographies since 2001. Policy makers in both the public and private sectors find such taxonomies, typically arranged into hierarchies of Supergroups, Groups and Subgroups, useful across a wide range of applications in business and service planning. Recent and forthcoming releases of small area census statistics pose new methodological challenges. For example, the 2022 Scottish Census was carried out a year after those in other UK nations, and some of the variables now collected across different jurisdictions do not bear direct comparison with one another. Here we develop a methodology to accommodate these issues alongside the more established procedures of variable selection, standardisation, transformation, class definition and labelling.</jats:p>

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Generic health relevance
Divisions:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2023 10:05
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2024 18:41
DOI:	10.1111/geoj.12550
Open Access URL:	https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12550
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3177556