Consumer Data Research

Cheshire, James; Longley, Paul; Singleton, Alex

doi:10.14324/111.9781787353886

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“…Geo-referencing of the historical census records spatially enables an intriguing range of topics in digital humanities and creates a framework for geo-temporal analysis where data from successive censuses can be linked. In our future research, we propose to apply automated techniques [21] developed for linking recent national consumer registers [27] to the similar linkage of historical census data. This agenda encompasses developing new geo-temporal demographics, migration analysis, segregation studies and an over-arching analysis of processes and patterns of social and spatial mobility in Great Britain.…”

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Geo-Referencing and Mapping 1901 Census Addresses for England and Wales

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Longley

2019

IJGI

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Geocoding historical addresses is a primary yet nontrivial application of spatial analysis in historical geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial humanities. We demonstrate our endeavours of geo-referencing and visualising historical census addresses in England and Wales, by matching the residential addresses to a historical gazetteer and a contemporary address database of Britain. The results indicate that it is feasible to standardise and geocode a large share of unique addresses from the historical database. The historical gazetteer and the modern address registers are two complementary data assets that can be used to geo-reference both well-formatted addresses in urban areas and non-standard addresses such as place names or building names in rural areas. The geo-referenced historical census data open up new opportunities for a broad spectrum of geo-demographic research on historical population characteristics at the micro level in England and Wales.

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confidence: 99%