Hi Stephen,
This is the first thing that comes to mind for me - index of deprivation: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/english-indices-of-deprivation-2019-mapping-resources
While this kind of analysis can certainly be useful for some things, I would advise caution on one point (which also happens to be the most popular thing do with this kind of data). Specifically, using postcodes as a proxy indicator of visitor demographics can be misleading. There is good reason to think that the person at a museum event may be the one higher income person in an overall poor neighbourhood, for example. And assuming that an aggregate pattern (e.g. deprivation of a region) applies at the level of an individual from that larger group (e.g. one museum visitor who lives in a deprived neighbourhood) is a logical fallacy (namely, the ecological fallacy).
Best wishes,
Eric
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Subject: Relating postcodes to demographic and social data
Slightly technical one this, sorry if it is a bit off topic. Does anyone know a way to relate UK post codes to demographic information and/or other social metrics like levels of social disadvantage?
I have got caught up in large databases that relate post codes to census constructs called Lower and Middle Layer Super Output Areas which in turn can be related to other data, but this looks like it will be very clunky, inaccurate and provide data that will be hard to interpret. I want there to be something simpler and clearer, but is there? Can anyone help?
Thank you all.
Stephen
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