GKB 20th Anniversary Event

The History of Geodemographics:
The Future of GeoDems

Join the experts in geodemographics for this FREE webinar to celebrate 20 years of the Geodemographics Knowledge Base, an invaluable resource for all those interested in the use of Geodemographic data. Hear how the use of this important data has grown over the past 30 years and how they envisage the future use and sources to obtain it.

We will be joined by Dr. Barry Leventhal, consultant statistician with experience gained in market research, geodemographics and analytics. Barry is also the founder of the MRS Census and Geodems group.

Barry will explain how the geodemographics industry has changed over the years, and the role played by the MRS Census and Geodems Group. Barry will also highlight the importance the Geodems Knowledge Base since its creation 20 years ago, a major directory of geodemographic sources The GKB provides several hundred curated websites covering the UK, Europe and many other parts of the world.

We will also be joined by Paul Longley, Professor of Geographic Information Science at University College London who will be providing a presentation describing and evaluating some of the ways in which consumer data are supplementing more conventional data sources in the creation and updating of geodemographic indicators.

He will describe the creation of linked consumer registers that enable annual estimates of residential churn and annual estimates of the change in ethnic composition of neighbourhoods – something that has recently been of interest to the Joint Biosecurity Committee.

He will also describe the creation of niche geodemographic summary measures, and current endeavours at the Consumer Data Research Centre to relate geodemographic classifications to measures of footfall and activities in urban areas.

We will then be joined by Dr. Emma White, current chair of MRS CGG to detail the current activities of the group, guest speakers and opportunites to participate.