Brunsdon, Chris and Charlton, Martin and Rigby, Jan
(2016)
An Open Source Geodemographic Classification of Small
Areas in the Republic of Ireland.
Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy.
ISSN 1874-4621
Abstract
Geodemographic classifications have progressed from manual classifications
of areas through to complex, highly marketable products used in both the public and
private sectors. As their production became commercialized, input variables moved
beyond census variables to include other, often not publicly available datasets, and
hence the resultant black-box approach increased in sophistication, but was less open to
scrutiny. In the UK this was somewhat reversed with the production of the Output Area
Classification (OAC) from the 2001 census. As an alternative approach, in this paper
we demonstrate the production of a geodemographic classification for the Republic of
Ireland, using a different approach to OAC, and extending the ethos of transparency
and reproducibility.
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