PLACE BASED BUDGETING: MAKING EFFICIENCY SAVING WITH OAC IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY

PLACE BASED BUDGETING: MAKING EFFICIENCY SAVING WITH OAC IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY
Alex Singleton, University of Liverpool

www.areaclassification.org.uk

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OAC User Group
Established 2006
Mission
Promoting the use of OAC and area classifications more generally.
Affiliated to the RSS’ Statistics User Forum.

What have “we” achieved?
211 members (Mailing List)
Active committee (public/ private/ academic)
Annual conference
Numerous training sessions
Regular conference appearances
Poster Campaign
Strong web presence
Since May 2007 – 27K unique users on website

Our Key Challenges
OAC 2011
Lobbying for open access 2011 Census Output
Promoting our Key Messages
OAC is free
OAC is open and peer reviewed
OAC is a viable alternative to commercial classifications
Providing better descriptive material and tools
Geodemographic education
Geodemographic research

About Today
Autumn spending review
How can OAC help you save money?
As a viable alternative to commercial classification
Operational use and generation of insight
Demonstrate some new tools utilising OAC

About Today
14.10 – 14.35 – OAC in an age of austerity. John Fisher: Local Futures
14.35 – 15.00 – Using geo-demographic classifications for customer insight. Miranda Webb and Andrew Rudd: Worcestershire County Council
15.00 – 15.25 – Married to MOSAIC or could we have an affair with OAC? Steven Rose: Birmingham City Council
15.25 – 15.50 – The British Population Survey – an introduction to a new perspective. Mike Hare: The BPS
15.50 – 16.15 – Open Data, Free Tools. Alex Singleton: University of Liverpool and Daniel Lewis: University College London
16.15 – 16.30 – Questions for the Speakers / Discussion

PLACE BASED BUDGETING: MAKING EFFICIENCY SAVING WITH OAC IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY

by Alex Singleton on Sep 07, 2010

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