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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