1 Jan 2000

OAC design and use from Daniel Vicker’s Thesis

Posted by Daniel Lewis

Daniel Vickers’ PhD thesis on OAC uses the classifications to explore a number of different areas, including:

• the residential zones of cities
• compare the eight core cities across the UK
• changing voting patterns in the 2001 and 2005 elections
• the Countryside Agency rural-urban classifications
• deprivation levels based on the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004
• assessing socio-economic differences against Welsh language speaking, as well as religion in Northern Ireland
• Migration levels
• Socio-economic differences across the English ‘North-South’

The thesis can be downloaded from [here]

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    The Output Area Classification (OAC) distills key results from the Census for the whole of the UK to indicate the character of local areas.

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