Demographic and Health Time-Series Analysis of Small Areas in GB: The Development of Area Measures and Population Estimates

In health and other applied studies, there is a need for populations as denominators and measures of area type as covariates by time point and small area geographies. The work referred to here demonstrates how resources have been developed and made available to other researchers which subsequently has been reported in numerous journal articles. Some of the work has been area based and some about outcomes for individuals. Recently, the estimates and area type measures have been updated and extended so as to underpin current research. This work is ongoing and will be reported in time but the resources used as denominators and area types are now available to the wider research community. This short paper gives an overview of the relevant research and points others to the source of freely downloadable datasets.