CDRC researchers have released a new classification that sorts 500 British high streets into four categories based on their resilience to the COVID-19 lockdowns. This information can inform responses to the ongoing impacts that the pandemic has...
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...
In this project, funded by Nuffield Foundation, the researchers have created a bespoke multidimensional geodemographic classification of the older population in England (those aged 50+) and demonstrated its utility. Such a geodemographic...
The latest release of AHAH provides a fresh opportunity to look at place matters for health. While our health is affected by who we are and how we behave (e.g., our genes, diet, physical activity), where we live also matters and shapes our health...
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-...
New research by the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) uses a number of indicators to determine how retail centres across Great Britain perform.
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...
See “named” which maps relative concentrations of particular surnames, in the UK. You can map your own surname to see where in the UK it is most popular.
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...
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...