Measuring neighbourhood effects

Council Chamber
Royal Statistical Society, London

Date:  21 November 2003

Programme

Using bespoke neighbourhoods and fractal factors to measure area-

level effects
Ron Johnston, Kelvyn Jones, Simon Burgess, Carol Propper, Rebecca

Sarker and Anne Bolster, University of Bristol

Discussion
Discussants: Ed Fieldhouse, University of Manchester and Nick Buck,

University of Essex

Multiquantile models for Small Area Estimation
Ray Chambers and Nikolaos Tzavidis, University of Southampton

Discussant: Harvey Goldstein, Institute of Education

Methodology for quantifying and explaining the relative contribution of

individual and group level factors on health
Tri Tat, Imperial College London
 

Methods of adding geographical data to longitudinal datasets: what are

the options? what are their strengths and weaknesses?

Paul Boyle and Andy Cullis, University of St Andrews
This will be a discussion session to inform a consultation being

conducted by Paul Boyle and colleagues and commissioned by the ESRC

National Longitudinal Strategy Committee. The remit is to provide

advice on the various methods by which geographic information may

be added to longitudinal surveys whilst still preserving confidentiality.