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CDRC GISRUK Data Challenge

The CDRC are collaborating with GISRUK 2018 to host a data challenge that has a particular focus on Brexit. Entrants are encouraged to get their submissions in to be in with a chance of winning a £500 prize.

Challenge
We invite researchers intending to register as GISRUK 2018 conference delegates to develop  a novel analysis or visualisation of CDRC and associated data in order to investigate the hypothesis set out in the Economist article “The immigration paradox Explaining the Brexit vote” (Jul 14th 2016)[1] that argues that the rate of change in number of migrants in an area rather than the total headcount influenced the Brexit vote. We welcome analysis based on parts or all of the CDRC data listed below as well as analysis that links this with other CDRC data and other data holdings.

Issues that might be addressed include but are by no means limited to:

  • Whether Local Authority district is the most appropriate scale at which to ground analysis
  • Whether country of birth or ethnicity as defined by CDRC is the best predictor of voting behaviour
  • Whether the country of birth of recent immigrants plays any role in shaping voting intentions
  • Whether enfranchised members of recently arrived ethnic minority groups are themselves likely to vote for Brexit
  • Whether established party political affiliations affect the share of the Brexit vote
  • Whether voting behaviour varies according to other local, Regional or national circumstances.

    Data
    CDRC available to download at https://data.cdrc.ac.uk/dataset/gisruk-data-challenge-2018
  • EU Referendum Result Data
  • CDRC small area predicted ethnicity/citizenship data from 1998-2017. The data in the zip file contained here is for use for the GISRUK Data Challenge 2018 only. The data must not be republished in its unaggregated form.License: The data is copyright and database right Consumer Data Research Centre 2018. All rights reserved. Contains data derived from datasets from various sources, some of which are Crown Copyright National Statistics.

    Conditions
    A requirement of one of the data source providers is that access to this data is restricted to participants in the CDRC GISRUK Data Challenge. Participants do not need to be GISRUK delegates at the time of getting their submissions in, but, in the event of becoming one of the four finalists, must be willing to register, attend and present at GISRUK which will be held at the University of Leicester, 17 – 20 April 2018. In order to the access the data please email the administrator for the Challenge, Oliver O’Brien, at o.obrien@ucl.ac.uk, confirming that you accept the conditions below. You will then be emailed the password needed to unlock the files.

    License
    The data is copyright and database right Consumer Data Research Centre 2018. All rights reserved. Contains data derived from datasets from various sources, some of which are Crown Copyright National Statistics.

    Submission
    Applicants should inform CDRC of their intention to participate in the Challenge to o.obrien@ucl.ac.uk by the 11th February 2018, to include:
  • title of paper
  • author(s)
  • institution  Applicants should prepare a two A4 page case study of their analysis and submit to o.obrien@ucl.ac.uk by the 4th March 2018. These summaries will be used to select 4 finalists projects to be presented at the GISRUK conference. Finalists will be notified by the 19thMarch.The best analysis based on the case study and presentation as judged by a panel made up of CDRC staff and GISRUK organisers will be awarded a £500 prize. The four finalist case studies will be made available on the CDRC website and any outputs made available through the CDRC open service.
  • Research submitted to CDRC for the challenge can then be subsequently published by applicants themselves, if desired, regardless of whether it is chosen for presentation at GISRUK 2018. Applicants may not however carry out or publish further/alternative substantive research with the data beyond what they have submitted to us, due to the above restrictions stipulated by an upstream data provider.
  • The four finalist case studies will be made available on the CDRC website and any outputs made available through the CDRC open service

    Enquiries 
    For all enquiries please contact Challenge Administrator Oliver O’Brien, o.obrien@ucl.ac.uk.

 

 

 

 

[1] https://www.economist.com/news/britain/21702228-areas-lots-migrants-voted-mainly-remain-or-did-they-explaining-brexit-vote