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UPRN seeding in CHI-addresses

Safe People

Organisation name

University of Edinburgh

Applicant name(s)

Dr Huayu Zhang

Funders/ Sponsors

Advanced Care Research Centre

Safe Projects

Project ID

DL-2021-023

Lay summary

Where people live in households or neighbourhoods is closely associated with a range of socio-economic and other factors. Many such factors are key to answering questions and providing solutions in the advanced care setting. For example, from one’s address, we can infer whether someone is a care home resident (type of residence), or lives in an affluent or deprived area, or one with high or low air pollution (environmental factors). In principle, GP registration address recorded in the Community Health Index (CHI) would allow us to accurately identify where someone lives (beyond existing uses of address postcode which is less fine grained). Utilising the Unique Property Reference Number (UPRN) created by the Ordnance Survey (OS), we can develop a more granular picture of where people live utilising a coded system that removes the need for addresses, reducing identifiability of data for research and innovation.

Request category type

Other

Latest approval date

24/01/2022

Safe Data

Dataset(s) name
Data sensitivity level

Anonymous

Safe Setting

Access type

Release