Wyszomierski, Jakub, Longley, Paul A, Singleton, Alex D, Gale, Christopher and O'Brien, Oliver 
ORCID: 0000-0002-3413-0853
(2023)
A neighbourhood Output Area Classification from the 2021 and 2022 UK censuses
The Geographical Journal, 190 (2).
ISSN 0016-7398, 1475-4959
Abstract
AbstractUK‐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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | cluster analysis, geodemographics, Output Area Classification, UK Census of Population |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science & Engineering > School of Environmental Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Symplectic Admin |
| Date Deposited: | 20 Dec 2023 10:05 |
| Last Modified: | 27 Feb 2026 19:49 |
| 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 |
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