eprintid: 10189266 rev_number: 11 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/92/66 datestamp: 2024-04-26 12:55:07 lastmod: 2024-04-26 12:55:07 status_changed: 2024-04-26 12:55:07 type: thesis metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Wyszomierski, Jakub Jan title: Micro-geodemographics and deharmonisation of the 2021/2 Output Area Classification ispublished: unpub divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F26 note: Copyright © The Author 2023. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Any third-party copyright material present remains the property of its respective owner(s) and is licensed under its existing terms. Access may initially be restricted at the author’s request. abstract: The 2001 and 2011 Area Classification for Output Areas (2001 OAC and 2011 OAC) are open geodemographic classifications that have offered an understanding of the UK population for the majority of the 21st century. Both were developed based on Census data and in collaboration with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and they have been widely used in academia, the public as well as the private sector. Although providing an invaluable overview of the demographic and socio-economic structure of the neighbourhoods, the reliance on Census data implicates a decreasing reliability and temporal stability of the results over time. While the prospect of the 2021 UK national enumeration has naturally made a space for the development of a 2021 OAC that would encompass wider socio-economic changes that occurred since 2011 and solidify the conventional methodology utilised for the creation of OACs, the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and the resulting Census deharmonisation have highlighted the need for the development of a new methodology that could provide timely updates to open geodemographic classifications, without relying solely on Census data. Consequently, this has brought a fair amount of uncertainty about the future of the geodemographic classification in light of the increasing costs and decreasing longevity of national enumerations, leading to a growing interest in the utility of administrative and consumer data sources in describing the population. This project addresses the challenge posed by Census deharmonisation and delivers a new open geodemographic classification of the UK despite the absence of 2021 Scottish Census results. Moreover, it introduces the concept of hybrid geodemographics and calls for the utilisation of highly spatially and temporally granular datasets in the development of micro-geodemographics. date: 2024-03-28 date_type: published oa_status: green full_text_type: other thesis_class: doctoral_open thesis_award: Ph.D language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2260165 lyricists_name: Wyszomierski, Jakub lyricists_id: JWYSZ02 actors_name: Wyszomierski, Jakub actors_id: JWYSZ02 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public pagerange: 1-438 pages: 438 institution: UCL (University College London) department: Geography thesis_type: Doctoral editors_name: Longley, Paul editors_name: Cheshire, James editors_name: Gale, Chris citation: Wyszomierski, Jakub Jan; (2024) Micro-geodemographics and deharmonisation of the 2021/2 Output Area Classification. Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189266/2/THESIS_Jakub_Jan_Wyszomierski.pdf