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Lowest level reliability with spatial data

Added by Paul Downward about 6 years ago. Updated almost 6 years ago.

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
Normal
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Category:
Survey design
Start date:
03/23/2018
% Done:

100%


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I am currently supervising a PhD student who is very interested in exploring the environmental influences on individual well-being and, consequently, undertaking some analysis of how spatial features might influence this. We would naturally apply to use the special license access data but could I ask an initial question about what is the lowest level that the study is designed to give reliable inferences. Thus, as we drill down are their spatial gaps in the sampling?

#1

Updated by Stephanie Auty about 6 years ago

  • Category changed from Data analysis to Survey design
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Many thanks for your enquiry. The Understanding Society team is looking into it and we will get back to you as soon as we can.

Best wishes,
Stephanie Auty - Understanding Society User Support Officer

#2

Updated by Olena Kaminska almost 6 years ago

Dear Paul,

Thank you for your question. If you mean a unit of analysis - there isn't any restriction. You can use any lowest level of analysis down to households, people and questions or time points within people. For this type of analysis you can use any level of spacial information in your models.

If you are thinking about studying one geographic point at a time - then we are not a Census so you can't have information on a village or street level. You may be ok at LSOA or even MSOA level (again if you study one LSOA or one MSOA at a time) - but it all depends on your analysis. For example it will depend on whether you are looking at households or people, whether you are looking at everyone or a specific group, on your type of analysis, and on your results (the size of the difference, for example, that you want to detect and how close to the extreme points the distribution of your y variable is - whether it is 50%/50% or 95%/5%).

Alternatively if you want to study spacial points and not people - the lowest unit of analysis is an address (and even household in case of multiple households within an address). Note that our sample is weighted to represent people - so your spacial analysis will be representing geographical places proportional to population density. If you are after representing geographies - you are limited to those where people live and you may want to reweight - as you will be underrepresenting those geographies with lower population density.

Hope this helps,
Olena

#3

Updated by Stephanie Auty almost 6 years ago

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#4

Updated by Stephanie Auty almost 6 years ago

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
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From: Paul Downward [mailto:]
Sent: 03 April 2018 11:52
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Subject: RE: [Understanding Society User Support - Support #944] Lowest level reliability with spatial data

That is very helpful Olena,

Thank you.

Paul.

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