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An overview of zones and zone designDownload slides
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Principles of automated zone design methods
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Introduction to AZTool software
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Examples of automated zone design in practice
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Recommended reading
- Cockings, S., Harfoot, A., Martin, D. and Hornby, D. (2011) Maintaining existing zoning systems using automated zone design techniques: methods for creating the 2011 Census output geographies for England and Wales. Environment and Planning A 43, 2399-2418
- Cockings, S., Harfoot, A., Martin, D. and Hornby, D. (2013) Getting the foundations right: spatial building blocks for official population statistics. Environment and Planning A A 45, 1403-1420
- Cockings, S. and? Martin, D.? (2005) Zone design for environment and health studies using pre-aggregated data.? Social Science and Medicine? 60, 2729-2742
- Openshaw, S. (1977) A geographical solution to scale and aggregation problems in region-building, partitioning and spatial modelling. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers NS 2, 459-72
- Martin, D. (1998) Optimizing census geography: the separation of collection and output geographies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 12, 673-685
- Martin, D. (2002) Geography for the 2001 Census in England and Wales. Population Trends 108, 7-15
- Martin, D., Cockings, S. and Harfoot, A. (2013) Development of a geographical framework for census workplace data. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society) 176, 585-602> > Openshaw, S. (1984) The modifiable areal unit problem. Concepts and Techniques in Modern Geography No. 38 Geo Books, Norwich