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Data

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Data coverage
• Economy: scale;
productivity; growth;
industrial structure;
business and enterprise;
skills and qualifications;
labour market
• Society: demographics
(age; ethnicity;
households; migration
and change);
occupations; prosperity;
deprivation; health;
change
• Environment: housing;
commercial & industrial
floorspace; transport;
local amenities; natural
environment

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Sources
• Local Knowledge
contains a wide range
of data for analysing
the characteristics of
Britain's cities and
localities.
• Data is drawn from 130
nationally recognised
sources, together with
unique Local Futures
indicators
• Content is held at a
regional, sub-regional,
Local Authority District,
ward and
neighbourhood level
• Powerful 'search
engines' allow users to
quickly locate data and
generate outputs.

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Data
• Data coverage allows
a comprehensive
analysis of places,
with indicators
organised in three
broad categories and
twenty sub-
categories.
• Local Knowledge
contains over 1,500
indicators with
national coverage.
• For each sub-
category we provide
headline indicators
and a composite
score, for use in our
overall analysis of
place.

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Private space
• Users have the option of including their own locally sourced
data within Local Knowledge. The data can be analysed using
the system’s easy-to-use toolkit, alongside our own data. Two
types of data can be included:
• Thematic data: locally sourced indicators can be added at a
variety of spatial levels, from district through to ward and
neighbourhood level. Examples of thematic data include crime
rates and fear of crime.
• Cosmetic data: point or polygon data can also be included
and viewed within the mapping application. Examples of
cosmetic data include the location of schools, GP surgeries
and land holdings.

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Spatial coverage
• Data is held at a number
of different spatial levels,
allowing users to 'drill-
down‘, identifying local
differences
Regions 11
Sub-
regions
50
Districts 400
Wards 10,000
LLSOAs 34,000
COAs 200,000

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Data packs
• Data Packs have been developed in association with third
party data suppliers.
• Acxiom is one of the world’s leading marketing services and
data companies. Data is derived from their research opinion
poll, which is collected half-yearly and has a sample of over
one million respondents. Indicators are available for sub-
regions down to lower level super output areas or output
areas.
• Hometrack is the UK’s leading provider of residential property
and housing information. Hometrack supply high quality data
for use by local authorities and property developers.
• Data packs can be supplied as an add-on to an annual
subscription. The data can be viewed alongside our current
data and accessed using our range of analytical tools.

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Data packs - examples
Acxiom
• Civic engagement
• Debt and savings
• Environmental behaviour
and awareness
• Health behaviour
• Housing and households
• Income
• Internet access and
digital services
• Satisfaction with services
Hometrack
• Property prices
• Affordability
• Housing sales
• Housing supply
• Housing demand
• People and society

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Data packs - examples
Expenditure and
Food Survey
• Total household income
• Household income from
different sources
• Household income from
benefits
• Household expenditure
on pensions, life
insurance, savings,
investment
• Household expenditure
on food, transport and
communications, cultural
activities, fuel
British Population
Survey
• Household income
• Internet access
• Demographics
• Qualifications
• Economic activity
• Home tenure

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