| descriptiongeneral | The Craig-Webber area classification is based upon ward of usual residence.
It is a classification scheme produced jointly by The Office of Population Censuses and Surveys (OPCS, now ONS) and the Centre for Environmental Studies to classify local authority districts as one of 36 'clusters' according to a number of social and economic characteristics. These 'clusters' may be aggregated to provide the seven 'families' which make up the scheme.
"The classification scheme itself is based on an analysis of 40 SAS [Census Small Area Statistics] variables from the 1971 Census data. The variables, which reflect the demographic structure of the local authority area, household composition, housing conditions, socio-economic structure and employment structure, were known to discriminate well between different types of area and to be highly correlated with important variables".(Creeser, R 'LS User Guide 7 An introduction to the area based variables in the LS' p 24)
See LS User Guide 7, pp 23-24 for further information on Small Area Statistics. |
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