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Enhanced Synthetic Population Open
This dataset has been provided by University of Southampton. The data is an enhanced version of the CDRC Synthetic Population dataset from the University of Leeds. This synthetic population contains individual level data from England and Wales,...
Ethnicity Estimator
The Ethnicity Estimator (EE) classifier is based on research which uses names data assembled by the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC). The data are taken from consumer sources and from the Office for National Statistics (ONS), which securely...
Changing distributions of London’s ethnic minority communities
Looking at movement of people across London by examining the associations between the given and surname of an individual and their ethnicity.
Could Wind Farms Power Every UK Home by 2030?
Peter Wurmsdobler conduced an analysis on UK Prime Minister's pledge that "Wind farms could power every home by 2030" [BBC](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54421489). While Peter was certain that the Prime Minister had been well advised...
Consumer Data Insights for Housing Policy
Solving Britain’s housing crisis requires rich, robust and regularly updated local data about the housing stock and how people move through it. However, no traditional data resource ticks all these boxes. In this story, we describe how CDRC data...
Lockdown guidelines exposed socio-spatial fragmentation
In this study, we used data on human mobility to explore the activity patterns in the neighbourhoods of Greater London as they emerged from the first wave of national lockdown measures in summer 2020. The anonymised smartphone location data...
Local Data Spaces: Supporting Local Authority Covid-19 Response
Covid-19 has strained already insufficient Local Authorities resources, with infection and transmission of Covid-19 further exacerbating existing social inequalities. Four CDRC academic researchers have been working using the Office for National...
Traditional Retail Markets Community Value Survey Data Secure
This dataset has been supplied by the project 'Understanding and Enhancing the Community Value of Traditional Retail Markets in UK cities' (ES/P010547/1) conducted by the University of Leeds, the Open University, the NMTF, and the New Economics...
When do people get tested and does it matter?
Testing has become a way of life as we begin to learn how to live with COVID-19. We have previously described [who got tested when initially piloting the provision of free lateral flow tests](https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/stories/who-gets-tested-when-...