Last updated: 08/13/2018

<p>The Classification of Workplace Zones for England and Wales (COWZ-EW) is a geodemographic classification of the characteristics of Workplace Zones (WZs), based on data from the 2011 Census of England and Wales. It categorises WZs based on their similarity in terms of a range of census variables.</p> <p>48 Census variables were selected for their ability to differentiate different types of workers and workplaces, and a k-means clustering technique was used to generate 7 Supergroups and subdivide each of these into a varying number of Groups, giving 29 Groups in total. More details on the methodology can be found in the User Guide (available from the Download link above).</p> <p>Status: This is an interim product (for England and Wales) released in response to strong user interest whilst a full UK-wide classification is being developed.</p> <p>Adapted from data from the Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. 2011 Census Workplace Zone boundaries, 2011 Census data tables © Crown copyright and database right 2015</p>

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Themes

  • Economy
  • Geographies

Keywords

  • geodemographics
  • workplace zones
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contactPoint COWZ, University of Southampton (email)
publisher Cambridgeshire County Council - Policy and Insight Team
accessLevel public
identifier 079b894b-c17d-431a-af90-d1ccbc37567a
issued 2018-07-30
landingPage https://data.cambridgeshireinsight.org.uk/dataset/classification-workplace-zones-england-and-wales-cowz-ew
modified 2018-08-13
temporal 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00/2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00