Geodemographics
Geodemographics is the description of people according to where they live, derived from the study of spatial information.
2001 Census LGA Bulletin
A part of the Local Government Association website dedicated to the 2001 Census and its implications for local authorities. The site contains ONS-prepared 2001 Census publicity material. It is restricted access to LGA Member Authority Officers and Councillors.
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www.lga.gov.uk/content.asp?lsection=0&ccat=-1&id=SXADDF-A7801EE1#2001 census
2001 Census Output Areas Project
The homepage of the ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)-funded 2001 Census Output Areas Project at the University of Southampton. The site outlines the methods used to automate the creation of output areas for the 2001 census.
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Access to Higher Education 1991-98: 'Using Geodemographics'
A reproduction of an article published in the journal Widening Participation and Lifelong Learning by David Tonks of Lancaster University, in which UK university entrants are analysed by their geodemographic profiles.
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AFD Software: Censation
Censation is a geodemographic solution based on the 2001 Census data. It is included free in all of AFD's Address Management Products.
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ALLM Systems and Marketing
ALLM Systems and Marketing are providers of geographically-based statistical data. The Global Gazetteer, their premier product, is a customisable database of over 4 million population locations across the world.
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American Demographics
The website of American Demographics magazine, a publication that concentrates on the application of demographic knowledge and geodemographic principles within a marketing context. The site contains a search facility to locate articles from back issues of the magazine, which can be read online. Although the content is obviously biased towards America, many of the articles make interesting reading for anyone involved in the use of geodemographic market targeting techniques.
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Applying GIS Technology and Geodemographics to College and University Admissions Planning: Some Results from Ohio State University
An example of the use of geodemographics in examining access to education in the United States. The article was written by Professor D Marble and Mr V Mora of the Ohio State University.
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gis.esri.com/library/userconf/proc97/proc97/abstract/a501.htm
Association for Geographic Information
The main website of the AGI - the Association for Geographic Information in the UK.
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Association for Geographic Information's Address Geography Special Interest Group
The Address Geography Special Interest Group of the AGI. The online newsletters available at this site will be of particular interest to those seeking information on the latest developments in UK Census and postcode geographies. The site is maintained by David Martin of the University of Southampton.
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Association for Geographic Information GIS WWW Resource List
The AGI's own GIS WWW resource list, maintained by the Geography Department at the University of Edinburgh. Some of the sites listed on this page have relevance to the geodemographics industry.
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Association of Regional Observatories
The website of the Association of Regional Observatories is a portal to the work of the Regional Observatories in England. It provides access to information about the Observatories and details of the Association itself. It also offers an overview of the research agendas being pursued by the Observatories in each Region.
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Beacon Dodsworth
Beacon Dodsworth specialise in geographic business solutions, including market analysis GIS and geodemographics. Their flagship product, Prospex, combines the ability to analyse geodemographic data with traditional GIS functionality to produce a complete market visualisation and decision support tool. Their geodemographic people classification, P2 People & Places, uses geography to classify people by where they live. Beacon Dodsworth can also supply and tailor a web mapping application to suit all needs. Beacon Dodsworth are suppliers of Census 2001 and mapping data.
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Belgian Statistics
The website of the National Institute of Statistics in Belgium. Although the English-language version of the site is still under construction, the site includes indicator statistics that highlight the economic, demographic and environmental trends in Belgium.
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BMRB
Among a wealth of promotional material this site includes freely downloadable data on selected contemporary marketing trends and papers on a variety of market research issues.
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CACI Limited
Acorn, the first geodemographic classification in the UK, is produced by market analysis company CACI. The company provides a combination of data, software and consultancy to help market products and services more effectively to the right consumers.
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Capscan
Capscan provide address management software and are an official agency for the 1991 Census. There is an opportunity to download trial versions of some of their software, such as Matchcode 5, from this site.
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CASS - The Centre for Applied Social Surveys
Based at the University of Southampton, the Centre for Applied Social Surveys is intended to train and advise people both from within and outside academia in the execution of large scale surveys, from design to analysis. The site includes the CASS Question Bank, a freely-accessible library of questionnaires and questions.
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Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, The
The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR) at the University of Manchester. The centre's newsletters and the conference papers produced by researchers at the centre can be read online at this site, and detailed lists of the researchers' other publications can be obtained.
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Census 2001 - Office for National Statistics
Gateway page to ONS information on 2001 Census.
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Census News
Online access to the latest census news released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
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Census Information Gateway, The
The vast UK Census help and information site, which includes a search facility for locating relevant sections of the site (currently under construction). The site contains information on a huge range of census-related issues.
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Census Output Prospectus
Discover the latest plans for the 2001 Census output, direct from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The prospectus can be read on-line, or downloaded as a PDF file.
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Census of Population: 2000 and Beyond - A Conference at the Cathie Marsh Centre
The website of a conference held in June 2000 at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research at the University of Manchester. Included on the site are full versions of the 15 conference papers available for downloading. The papers represent some of the latest research in the field, covering topics such as Experian's FIZZ system and the ONS's 2001 Census data dissemination strategies.
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Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
The Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) concentrates its research on areas' economic and social development. A full list of the Centre's recent projects is included in the site, as are links to many of the projects' own pages.
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CIA, The World Factbook
The Factbook is a comprehensive resource of facts and statistics on more than 250 countries and other entities.
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Claritas
Claritas offer their clients marketing solutions incorporating micro-marketing, database marketing and direct marketing techniques. They produce the well-known Super Profiles geodemographic classifier.
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The Clockworks
The Clockworks is a data marketing consultancy which aims to help clients understand their customers and markets more effectively. At the heart of the business is a series of unique marketing data models including the SONAR geodemographic classification system and SONARMAP, geographic information system software.
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Cooltown - People, Places, Things: Web Presence For The Real World
This paper by Tim Kindberg and several co-authors describes the 'Cooltown Project'. This project, initiated by HP Labs, seeks to develop an infrastructure to support web presence for people, places and things. By providing a bridge between the real world and a web-based virtual world it will enable services to become more personalised, spontaneous and responsive to the wide variety of contexts in which people live their lives.
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Demographic Decisions
Demographic Decisions provide independent consultancy advice to companies and organisations looking to maximise the value of their investments in demographic data and data exploitation.
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DemographicsNowUK
DemographicsNowUK is a subscription service providing demographic reports, maps, charts and data for the UK.
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Department of Social Statistics at the University of Southampton
The research performed in the Department of Social Statistics concentrates on sample survey theory, demography and statistical modelling. In so doing, it covers issues such as the modifiable areal unit problem and the concept of ecological fallacy. The latest working papers produced by the department are available to download from this site.
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Deprivation scores based on 1991 Census area statistics
As part of the Manchester University-based MIMAS service, this section of the Census Dissemination Unit's website includes a wide range of data relevant to deprivation scores based on 1991 Census statistics - many of which are only available to registered users of the 1991 SAS/LBS. The site also includes SASPAC files for calculating Townsend, Jarman, Carstairs and Noble et al scores.
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census.ac.uk/cdu/Datasets/1991_Census_datasets/Area_Stats/Derived_data/Deprivation_scores
Equifax
Equifax provide marketing information and market profiling services as well as many other products, including credit information provision and vehicle history checking.
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ESRC/JISC 2001 Census of Population Programme
Network of data support units providing access and support for census data resources to the UK Higher and Further Education communities. Contains news and links to other census resources.
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ESRC Society Today
ESRC Society Today provides access to social and economic research - available, planned and in progress.
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Estonian Statistical Office
The website of the Statistical Office of Estonia provides data for a range of indicators, the latest information on the census and various other statistics about Estonia and its populace.
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EuroDirect
EuroDirect offer customer profiling and prospect targeting among their portfolio of services. They produce the CAMEO range of geodemographic classification systems and the DemoGraf geodemographically-oriented GIS.
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EUROGI
The homepage of EUROGI, the European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information, which aims to promote and support geographic information technology. The site includes seven directories of relevant information, ranging from 'GI people' to 'GI Industry'. It also contains a large amount of information on the European Geographic Information Policy Framework.
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Experian - Business Strategies Division
Experian’s Business Strategies Division provides a detailed understanding and analysis of consumers, markets and economies in the UK and around the world. Its focus is consumer profiling and market segmentation, retail property analysis, economic forecasting and public policy research. The division is responsible for the creation of the MOSAIC household-level geodemographic classification which is available in 25 countries and classifies more than a million consumers worldwide.
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Experian - Data Intelligence
Experian's Data Intelligence team can provide full bureau support in the analysis and interpretation of Experian's range of geodemographic, local area, locational and cartographic data. The service brings together over 45,000 separate data items, including person and household level demographics, consumer and business segmentation systems (such as Experian's Mosaic classfication), lifestyle variables and local area data, including 2001 Census statistics.
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Experian - Demographics Online
Demographics Online lets you exploit a range of key marketing applications enabling you to answer a wide range of market planning and consumer insight questions. The site is made up of three applications: A Describe Area report to answer key questions about the area you are investigating in a series of themed reports; a Profile My Customers report to explain who your customers are by using one of a range of consumer classification systems, and a Rank Areas report helping you to identify the best areas to target based on your Profile report. These reports aid direct marketing activities, door to door distribution, network and territory planning.
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Fusion Software, SelfCoder
SelfCoder is a software web service that collects a respondent's occupation and returns the following data: social grade (A,B,C1,C2,D,E), estimated income (adjusted by age, sex and region) and SOC2000 groups.
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GBF/DIME - The History
A brief account of the history of the USA's GBF/DIME (Geographic Base File using Dual Independence Map Encoding) system. The GBF/DIME files formed a major part of the contemporary TIGER system in the United States, and so are fundamental to US Census geography.
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GBProfiler
Information on GBProfiler, a free geodemographic system for use in the academic community developed at Leeds University by Stan Openshaw and Marcus Blake. The site includes information on the general topics chosen to select the SAS (Small Area Statistics) variables to be incorporated into the classification.
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GeoComputation and Business Geographics at the University of Leeds
The University of Leeds is one of the premier academic institutions in the UK as far as geodemographics and geocomputational research is concerned. This page provides links to the members of staff involved (many of whose sites include downloadable versions of their published work), and also to a list of 'working papers' produced by the department, some of which relate to geodemographics and the 2001 Census.
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GEOEurope
GEOEurope is a European magazine produced by American publishers GEOPlace. The publication's subject matter is biased towards GIS, but the site includes online articles relevant to geodemographics and locational analysis.
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Geographical Information Science and Remote Sensing Network (GISRS), The
This site describes the work done by the GISRS which is part of the Department of Geography at University College London (UCL). It includes details of the staff and researchers involved and a list of recent publications.
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Geolabour
GeoLabour provides analysis of demography and labour market related issues, including issues of strategic geomarketing.
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GeoWise
GeoWise develops and sells InstantAtlas, a product that delivers geography and statistics within web browsers, it can be used to create stand-alone, interactive atlases, dashboards, profiles, or key performance indicator reports that allows people to view and explore patterns, monitor key indicators, present trends and support decision-making.
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GIS and Remote Sensing Unit at Lancaster University
A list of the reports produced by the NWRRL, (many with online abstracts), and information on ordering copies of the complete documents. Topics covered include the classification of residential districts, the issues of aggregation and the MAUP in the British Census, and the potential for fuzzy classification systems in geodemographic targeting.
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GoogleEarth
Want to know more about a specific location? Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and Google Search to provide access to the world's geographic information.
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Greek National Statistical Association
The NSA is responsible for collecting, analysing and disseminating statistical information in Greece. The site enables users to download a range of statistics and the Association's most recent press releases.
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GRC Database
This site, built and maintained by Graham Rhind, contains the most complete postal code and address resource list available on the Internet. You can also find out about unique books and other resources to provide you with everything you need to know to effectively manage your international database.
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InSite
InSite, from CACI, is a market analysis tool that brings together database, mapping and reporting functionality. It enables users to uncover intelligence in marketing data, from finding trends and opportunities in customer information to understanding locations in terms of people and demographics.
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Internet-based neighbourhood information systems and their consequences
This study from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation looks at the emergence of internet-based information systems (IBNIS), examining a range of sites in detail. Based on interviews with those involved in the development of such sites in the UK and USA, it looks at how technology can be used to classify and sort people and places.
iShareMaps
iShareMaps are mapping products from Astun Technology. UK Geocoding integrated into your website or on the desktop, and location-based web server for local government.
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Italian National Statistical Institute - ISTAT
ISTAT's website provides comprehensive datasets and related reports and articles on Italy's population, economy and environment. The site is updated regularly to include the very latest figures and press releases.
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JICPOPS
JICPOPS - the Joint Industry Committee for POPulation Standards - was set up in 1994 and aims to address the issues surrounding the anomalies that exist in the population and household datasets commonly used in micromarketing. The site outlines the problems in question and provides contact details for further information.
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Labour Force Survey, The
Administered by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the LFS produces regional employment data to an internationally-agreed standard, enabling comparison across the EU member states. This site provides data and documentation associated with the survey.
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MABLE/Geocorr Geographic Correspondence Engine
The MABLE/Geocorr Geographic Correspondence Engine is intended to produce reports that illustrate the relationships that exist between different geographic coverages in the United States. The system incorporates 1990 Census Geographies and some 'extension' coverages such as labour markets.
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Mapinfo
MapInfo provides location-based solutions and services that help organisations better understand their customers and markets in order to gain a competitive advantage. MapInfo solutions offer a combination of software and data allowing customers to map, visualise, profile, compare and act upon customer and market information.
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Maptitude
The Maptitude GIS for Windows is a low cost mapping solution for business, government, and education from Caliper Corporation. The software is available bundled with postcode boundaries (to sector level), postcode locator tools and a range of demographic and mapping datasets.
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Martin, Professor David
Professor David Martin's pages at the University of Southampton. Among Professor Martin's research interests (which are detailed on his site) are census population modelling and the geography of health. He also holds an ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council)-funded award under the 2001 Census Development Programme.
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Micromarketer Generation3
Micromarketer Generation3 is Experian’s suite of powerful geographical analysis software. Available for use either on the desktop or over the web, it is an integrated GIS tool that provides customer profiling, catchment definition, sales territory analysis, data modelling, mapping and visualisation.
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MSN Virtual Earth
MSN Virtual Earth combines mapping and local search to provide answers to your search queries in a geographical context.
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National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra - New Publications
This site provides an opportunity to download versions of the latest publications produced by the NATSEM researchers. Although written with reference to Australian applications, many of the articles make interesting reading for those looking for geodemographic research literature.
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The National Classification of Census Output Areas
The National Classification of Census Output Areas is a three tier hierarchy which was created from Census variables, and classifies every output area in the UK based on its value for those variables. This site is designed to give users access to the classification, and information about its creation and additional information to aid use.
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National Strategy for Neighbourhood Renewal - Report of Policy Action Team 18: Better Information
This report, published by the Government's Social Exclusion Unit (SEU), sets out the need for a wide range of information (data) in order to accurately pinpoint an area as being 'deprived', and stresses the inadequacies of a Census-only approach. It highlights many of the barriers preventing easy access to this desirable extra information, and tackles the problems associated with inconsistent areal boundaries, both over time and between datasets. It also makes recommendations for future changes to legislation surrounding digital information, data collection and Governmental data management strategies.
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Netherlands Statistics
This website delivers very up-to-date reports on most aspects of Holland's economy and demography, in addition to the range of indicator statistics provided by most national statistical institutes.
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North East Regional Research Laboratory at Newcastle University
The homepage of the NERRL, based at Newcastle University. The research currently taking place within the laboratory includes work into geographically weighted regression techniques for spatial data analysis.
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Norwegian Statistics
The 'Statistics Norway' site delivers a wide variety of up-to-the-minute statistics on Norwegian life and the Norwegian environment. The 'Publications' section contains every publication produced by Statistics Norway, most of which can be freely downloaded.
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OCSI, Oxford Consultants for Social Inclusion
OCSI can help local government and other public sector organisations develop detailed area profiles, providing information and analysis needed for area based strategies.
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Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study
The ONS Longitudinal Study involves a 1% sample of the population of England and Wales and has been running since 1971, deriving data from the Census and from other related sources. The LS data is less easily available than is the case for many ONS-controlled surveys due to confidentiality laws, and charges will be made to any non-academic users of the data.
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Openshaw, Professor Stan
Professor Stan Openshaw's pages at the University of Leeds. His research encompasses geodemographics, spatial analysis and GIS, and his site includes links to some of his working papers at the Leeds School of Geography.
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OriginsInfo
OriginsInfo specialises in geodemographics and the production of geodemographic software tools. Their key product, Origins, is a segmentation tool that helps organisations to understand the cultural, ethnic and linguistic origins of their users, customers, clients and employees.
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Output Area Classification (OAC)
This page from the ONS website provides a summary and additional links relating to the classification of output areas from the 2001 Census produced by the School of Geography at the University of Leeds. The links include details of methodology, variable selection, cluster summaries, maps and datasets which can be used for further analysis. Contact details are provided for obtaining a CD version of the information and data available.
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Output Area Classification (OAC) User Group
Supports and promotes the use of the UK Output Area Classification (OAC) as geodemography open to all. Its aims are to help users apply this fine grained classification, available in the public domain, through sharing and building experience, and by representing their interests.
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Polish Population Information - POPIN
The website of the Polish Central Statistical Office.
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Portuguese National Institute for Statistics - INFOLINE
The INFOLINE service is an online access point to official Portuguese statistical data and related reports and publications.
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Postcode Anywhere
Postcode Anywhere is a web based address management software which provides access to UK and international addresses, bank data, maps, lifestyle and geographic information.
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PSI Navigator
PSI Navigator is a search engine and directory for public sector information resources (files, datasets, publications etc) for many European Union countries.
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Regiodata
Regiodata provides regional economic data for Austria and eleven Eastern European countries. Access to the query portal - the Geomarketing Portal - is available through the site with free registration and then a charge per query. Information available includes economic data, purchase power indices, market potential estimates and regional population data. The site is written in the German language.
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Samples of Anonymised Records
The official website for the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research (CCSR). The Centre supports and disseminates the 1991 and forthcoming 2001 Samples of Anonymised Records. The SARs are samples of individual Census records which have been adapted to preserve respondents' confidentiality.
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SCGISA at the University of Sheffield Department of Geography
Although there is little online material available at this site, the 'People' section is useful for locating academics interested in incorporating socio-economic data (including the Census) into health service and crime pattern research.
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Social Grade Approximation for the 2001 Census
Social Grade is the 'common currency' social classification (the 'ABC1' system) used by the advertising industry and employed throughout marketing and market research. This site provides details of the new approximation to Social Grade available in the outputs from the 2001 Census. Results produced using the Social Grade algorithm are similar to other sources of information for people aged 16-64, but show differences from other sources for those aged 65 and above. A document is available for download in PDF format which demonstrates the extent of the similarities and differences and explains the likely causes.
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Society for Location Analysis (SLA), The
SLA is a not-for-profit organisation run by a voluntary committee and funded by GeoBusiness Solutions. Its aims are to improve the standing and promote the expertise of site location research; support the interests of the site location research community; encourage cross-fertilisation of information, techniques and practices; and encourage discussions of matters relating to site location research.
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Southwark Atlas of Health
This website illustrates the use of geodemographics in health by presenting case studies of real targeting campaings in Southwark as well the underlying theory.The website is an outreach activity of a Knowledge Partnership between UCL CASA Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis and the NHS. The project is based in Southwark Primary Care Trust.
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SPA Marketing Systems
SPA Marketing Systems is a market analysis company that provides segmentation, customer profiling, turnover prediction, site analysis, maps and many other services to help marketing and property departments. The company has particular expertise in the retail industry.
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Spanish National Statistical Institute
A very impressive site that enables straightforward access to a huge variety of statistical datasets and official government reports and publications on associated topics.
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Spatial-Literacy.org
Spatial-literacy.org is a gateway to the Spatial Literacy in Teaching (Splint) Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning (CETL), which is a joint initiative of the University of Leicester, University College London and the University of Nottingham. It provides resources and information on a variety of teaching, research and outreach activities, and acts as a portal to guide best practice across a range of public sector geographic information system (GIS) activities.
The site also includes the Surname Profiler site, which details the distribution of surnames in Great Britain, both current and historic, in order to understand patterns of population movement, social mobility, regional economic development and cultural identity.
Swedish Statistics
This site, run by 'Statistics Sweden', disseminates news, press releases and data produced by the Swedish government's official statistical office.
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Swiss Statistics
Swiss Statistics is the website of the Federal Statistical Office in Switzerland, and includes a search facility to find specific pieces of data among the vast range included on the site.
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Thrall, Professor Grant
Professor Grant Thrall's pages at the University of Florida. His research concentrates on business geography and geodemographics, incorporating market analysis and retail location. The site includes reprints of nine papers he has written, and also an 'Internet Tour' of business geography, interesting despite the inevitable American bias in its content.
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Town Centres Project, The
This UK Government funded project aims to develop a nationally consistent system of retail data collection including areas of town centre activity, floorspace, employment and retail sales turnover. A pilot study covering the London area has been completed and the project is now extending to the rest of England and Wales.
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Tranmer, Dr Mark
Dr Mark Tranmer's homepage at Manchester University. His research interests include the ecological fallacy, the modifiable areal unit problem and Census data analysis. His site includes links to downloadable versions of some of his publications, including one on the use of Census data in investigating the causes of the ecological fallacy.
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Understanding Population Trends and Processes (UPTAP)
UPTAP is an ESRC-funded initiative designed to: build capacity in secondary data analysis; promote the use of large-scale social science data sets; and improve our understanding of demographic trends and processes which affect society and the population. It funds projects by young or mid-career researchers working in academic and non-academic organisations around the country. Their website includes details of current projects.
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WebStar Data Services
WebStar provides statistics and maps on religion and ethnicity.
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Who's in? Lifestyles data and geographical research
A paper by Rich Harris in which he considers the potential for the application of lifestyles data in geographical research, and in particular within geocomputational problems. Issues such as geographical bias in non-response and the unknown quality of the data are tackled from an academic perspective.
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Williamson, Dr Paul
Dr Paul Williamson's homepage at the University of Liverpool. His research concentrates on small area population microdata and the use of neural networks and fuzzy logic in geographical analysis. The page includes links to the products of his latest research, including the website of a project aiming to create a national set of validated small area population microdata.
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