Geographical Referencing Learning Resources 
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:: Social science data
Explains how different social science phenomena exist at spatial locations - Geographical object types
- Direct and indirect referencing
- The modifiable areal unit problem (MAUP)
- Ecological fallacy
:: Statistical geography
- An explanation of Neighbourhood Statistics geography in England and Wales
- Understanding the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS)
- Using geographies from multiple time periods
:: Obtaining data
Data Access: UK academic || UK public sector || UK private sector || non-UK users 
UKBORDERS - EDINA's online digital boundary service- The National Statistics Postcode Directory (NSPD)
- GeoConvert - Mimas's online geography matching and conversion tool
:: Address referencing
:: Postcodes
- An overview of UK postcode system
- Correctly formatting UK postcodes
- Correctly formatting UK postcodes with Microsoft® Excel®
- Getting grid coordinates from postcodes using Microsoft® Access™
Georeferencing primary school data in Newham - Linking and aggregating postcoded data to Output Areas using a user-created postcode directory in Microsoft® Access™
- Linking and Mapping: Postcoded school performance data || Postcoded longitudinal dietary survey data (case study)
- Linking postcoded neighbourhood perception survey data to census, health and neighbourhood statistics geographies (case study)
:: Census geography
- An overview of UK census geography
- UK census data
- Census 2001: England || Wales || Scotland || Northern Ireland
- Census 1991: England || Wales || Scotland || Northern Ireland
- Census 1981: England || Wales || Scotland
- Census 1971: England || Wales || Scotland
- Joining and mapping census and boundary data in ArcGIS®
- Mapping health and pharmaceutical expenditure and their determinants across US states (case study)
:: Deprivation
- Deprivation indicators
- Townsend deprivation index
- Indices of Deprivation: ID2004 || ID2007
- Mapping deprivation in: City of Bristol || Isle of Wight (case study)
- Retrieving ID2007 in SASPAC and Mapping IMD ranking using MapShore
- Linking school performance data with IMD data in Newham using Microsoft® Access™ and Mapping the results in MapShore
:: Health geography
- Example - QOF (Quality and Outcomes Framework) Information
- Linking and mapping out of hours calls to GPs in Devon, England (case study)
Mapping and Data Linkage Resources
:: Frequently-asked mapping concepts and GIS processes
- Accuracy and precision
- Map: Scale | Projection
- ArcGIS®: Defining a map projection || Connecting to a folder || Merging shapefiles
:: Matching lists together
- Concept overview of matching two or more data lists together
- Matching two lists using Microsoft® Access™
- Linking and aggregating postcoded data to a higher geography using Microsoft® Access™
- Using gazetteer files to rezone data in SASPAC
- Aggregating school data to LSOA using gazetteer files in SASPAC
:: Mapping point information
- Concept overview of mapping a set of points
- Mapping a set of points using: ArcGIS® || MapShore
- Mapping school location in Newham using MapShore
:: Joining attributes and boundaries
- Concept overview of joining attributes to boundary data
- Joining attribute and boundary data for mapping purposes in ArcGIS®
- Importing user-defined variables to SASPAC
:: Creating a choropleth map
- Concept overview of creating a choropleth map
- Creating a choropleth map in: ArcGIS® || SASPAC and MapShore
:: Spatial data linkage: Joining point data to polygons
- Concept overview of linking point data to a set of polygons
- Joining point data to a set of polygons in ArcGIS®
:: Spatial data linkage: Joining polygons to points
- Concept overview of linking polygon data to a set of points
- Joining polygon data to a set of points in ArcGIS®