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Rural services data series: Availability of services at Output Area level (2000 to 2011)

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Description Service availability and accessibility has been a key rural policy issue for many years. In order to monitor changing levels of service availability, this indicator combines datasets that show where outlets of particular services can be found, with postcode level information on the distribution of households to calculate average distance of households within an Output Area from key services. Note data for higher geographies has been aggregated from Output Area. Data is based on road distances rather than straight-line “crow flies” distances. The analysis has been undertaken using the national accessibility model. This model was developed for Department for Transport in 2006 to calculate national core accessibility indicators and has been further refined and developed since then. Prior to analysis, service outlets were assigned grid-references, based on their postcode, using either: a) Gridlink b) Suppliers own geo-referencing. Any service outlets with postcodes that could not be matched to Gridlink (i.e. those which were absent, incomplete or incorrect) were not included in the analysis. Only service outlets in England were used. In some border regions, the closest outlet of a given service to a particular postcode may be in Scotland or Wales. As a result, the availability of a service type may be underestimated in these areas and further investigation of the availability of non-English service outlets may be required. The model uses the Ordnance Survey ITN data to describe the road network. Travel distances were calculated from the centre of each postcode to the nearest outlet for each service For the purposes of these analyses only current Household-Postcodes in England with an Address-count (i.e. with households) were used. The data is then aggregated from postcodes to Output Areas.
Geographic units Output Area (OA)
Source Commission for Rural Communities (CRC)

Core Accessibility Indicator: Employment (2005, 2008, 2010)

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Description Proportion of a) people of working age (16-74); b) people in receipt of Jobseekers' Allowance within 20 and 40 minutes of work by public transport/walking and cycling;
Geographic units Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA)
Source Department for Transport (DfT)

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Sex and age by distance travelled to work (2001)

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Description Sex and age by distance travelled to work. Census Area Statistics Table CAS120
Geographic units Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Local Authority District (LAD), Government Office Region (GOR), National, Parliamentary Constituency, Urban area
Source Census 2001

Sex and distance travelled to work by method of travel to work (2001)

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Description Sex and distance travelled to work by method of travel to work. Census Area Statistics Table CAS121
Geographic units Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Local Authority District (LAD), Government Office Region (GOR), National, Parliamentary Constituency, Urban area
Source Census 2001

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Economy and enterprise

Distance travelled to work

More recent data available

Rural services data series: Availability of services at Output Area level (2000 to 2011)

Core Accessibility Indicator: Employment (2005, 2008, 2010)

Proxy or related datasets

Sex and age by distance travelled to work (2001)

Sex and distance travelled to work by method of travel to work (2001)

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