1 Jan 2000
ACORN and IMD in British Crime Survey Analysis
Whilst this example does not actually use the OAC classification, the point is that it could. The use of a commercial classification, such as CACIs ACORN can easily be substituted for the free OAC geodemographic. Nevertheless, Ian Brunton-Smith (University of Surrey) shows how geodemographics can be used to summarise existing data in order to reveal new insight into how that data impacts differently upon different neighbourhood types. The British Crime Survey, as a government created information set, was an early adopter of geodemographic classification for profiling purposes. In this image, worry about certain types of crime are seen to be differently distributed across different ACORN classes:
The presentation given on this topic is available in either annotated or slide-only form.
