Profiles

• Individual insolvencies data: a national and local perspective

  
  
  

  This report looks at Individual Insolvencies Data from a National and Local Perspective, using The Insolvency Service's Data between 2000 and 2008 to highlight the sharp rise in individual bankruptcies over this period.
  
  

  • Individual insolvencies data, a national and local perspective  365kb

• Spatial patterns of unemployed claimant growth in Hampshire
  
  

  This report uses the Local Government Association's national methodology to measure the change in unemployed benefit claimants between May 2008 and May 2009 by occupation.

  
  

  • Spatial patterns of unemployed claimant growth in Hampshire  780kb

Office for National Statistics Output Area Classification

The Output Area classification (OAC) describes the character of local areas based on shared lifestyle traits. Derived from the 2001 Census theOAC has three hierarchical classifications:

• Supergroups: 7 types of lifestyle - ideal for broad descriptions
• Groups: 21 types of lifestyle for a more detailed description
• Subgroups: 52 types of lifestyles for the most detailed description

Hampshire OAC Supergroup map

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Hampshire OAC Group map

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Until recently OAC was fairly limited as a tool for area profiling, but developments by the OAC Usergroup with interactive maps, postcode profiling tools and links to national surveys has made OAC a powerful profiling tool. Unlike many commercial systems, OAC is Open Source data, and so  free for people to use and share (subject to copyright acknowledgement).

To learn more about OAC, the following HCC guide gives an overview, while the OAC Usergroup site offers guidance, links and advice on how to get the most from OAC:

• Output Area Classification Guide  2mb

• Visit the OAC Usergroup webpage and see how the British Population Survey, Wealth and Assets Survey, and Household Spending study  can tell you about the lifestyles of OAC types.

Hampshire Data

• Standard OAC data  1mb
  National Survey data matched to the Hampshire Standard OAC data

• Wealth and Assets  2mb

• OAC Group Household Spend  1mb