Fotheringham, Stewart and Foley, Peter F. and Charlton, Martin (2008) Automated Boundary Creation: Atomic Small Areas in Ireland. In: The European Information Society. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (LNGC) . Springer, pp. 241-259. ISBN 9783540789468

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Abstract

This paper describes the creation of a set of small-areas for the reporting of census data in the Republic of Ireland. The current areas used for reporting the results of the quinquennial population censuses are known as Electoral Divisions; they are large compared with similar reporting areas in Northern Ireland, they have widely varying populations and considerable internal social heterogeneity which makes them unsuitable for a wide variety of planning tasks. We describe an automated method of creating a suitable census geography which uses existing digital map and gazetteer data. We describe its structure and operation, validation and its application to nationwide. The areas have a prescribed minimum size, are designed to be consistently small, nest into the existing ED geography, cover the whole country, are constrained by natural boundaries, use streets as their unifying feature, and are reasonably homogenous.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	This is the postprint version of the chapter, which is available at: Fotheringham A.S., Foley P.F., Charlton M. (2008) Automated Boundary Creation: Atomic Small Areas in Ireland. In: Bernard L., Friis-Christensen A., Pundt H. (eds) The European Information Society. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Keywords:	census; electoral divisions; gazetteer; spatial patterns;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
Item ID:	10202
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78946-8_13
Depositing User:	Martin Charlton
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2018 16:46
Publisher:	Springer
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	https://link.springer.com/
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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