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1 Jan 2000

OAC used to profile Higher Education institutions

Posted by Daniel Lewis

The interaction between an Higher Education institution’s spatial location, course mix and neighbourhood tariff profile reveals a considerable amount of information about the characteristics of people who apply to study at an institution. The OAC classification is used in this example to profile a series of anonomied HE institutions in London.

The data used to create these profiles are those students who attended the institution in 2001. The data came from the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA). The paper also makes use of Experian’s commercial geodemographic classification “Mosaic”.

OAC Profile for students at a University in London

Full details of this case study are found in the paper:

Singleton, A.D., Davidson-Burnette, G., Longley, P. (2007) University Market Area Analysis for Widening Participation.CEBE Working Papers, 12.

For further details, please contact Alex Singleton

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