Housing & Communities
Living within a strong, supportive community and having access to safe, affordable housing that provides a comfortable standard of living are essential for our sense of stability and wellbeing.
Investigating the factors affecting access to housing and the health of communities is key to improving the lives of people living in the UK.
ADR UK has a number of data linkage projects, as well as research projects using existing linked data, underway to provide valuable new insights into the factors affecting the fabric of our communities and housing dynamics.
ADR Wales, for example, has explicitly identified housing as a key focus and the bedrock of living well, underscoring that good quality, affordable homes bring a wide range of benefits to health, learning and prosperity. It is therefore working to link Welsh data that will enable new insights into homelessness and its connection to health and education outcomes.
Meanwhile, ADR Scotland is supporting Scottish Government priorities around promoting safer communities and contributing to a public health approach to reducing violence. Researchers are using linked administrative data to better understand the connections between service demand and aspects of distress or vulnerability, including alcohol and other drugs, and mental health conditions.
ADR Northern Ireland (ADR NI) is also working on a number of projects aimed at improving policies relating to housing and communities. For example, by linking data relating to families, healthcare, environment and education, neighbourhood and community determinants of social distress as indicated by contact with emergency hospital services can be explored.
You can find out more about these projects and others underway within this theme by exploring the links below and visiting the ‘Projects’ page.
Housing & Communities Projects
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Trends in food poverty and linkages to health in Northern Ireland
17 February 2023
This project aims to produce a food poverty risk index for Northern Ireland which will answer a range of questions on food poverty in the region.
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Local Data Spaces: Helping Local Authorities tackle the Covid-19 pandemic
26 February 2021
ADR UK is funding an initiative to help local authorities across England harness crucial data in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.
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EU Settlement Scheme Data Linking Project
9 October 2020
The EU Settlement Scheme (EUSS) Data Linking Project is an ADR Wales initiative born out of the need to improve the evidence base on EU citizens in Wales who are part of the EU Settlement Scheme.
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Housing & Communities News
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ADR UK invests further funding in AD|ARC: A UK-wide agricultural data programme
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Farming and farmers in Northern Ireland: Working in partnership to create a data linking project
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ADR UK funds major new data linkage projects to address vital policy questions
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Literature review reveals insights into how EU nationals navigate their lives in the UK
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AD|ARC – Forging and strengthening a UK-wide administrative data research network
Publications
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Homelessness Data England linked dataset: Key messages from stakeholders (April 2022)
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Data Insights: European Union migrants living in Wales (January 2022)
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Data Insights: Geographical profiling verses individual risk profiling in reducing rates of low birth weight and improving school readiness (December 2021)
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Data Insights: Automatic coding of occupations: Methods to create the Scottish Historic Population Database (SHPD) (November 2021)
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Data Insights: Living in a safe, connected area improves life chances for children in poverty in Wales (November 2021)
Find out more
If you are a researcher interested in working with admistrative data within this theme, or a policymaker interested in how ADR UK work can improve your insights and support your decision making in this area, please get in touch.