Processing census data from ONS
The development of the SODAS (Symbolic Official Data Analysis System) software based on symbolic data analysis was accompanied by a series of benchmark activities involving some official statistical institutes throughout Europe. The principal goal of these benchmark activities was to demonstrate the usefulness of symbolic data analysis for practical statistical exploitation and analysis of official statistical data. This work illustrates an application of the SODAS software to ONS (Office for National Statistics) Census data as benchmark data. These statistical data concern demographic, housing, household composition, socio-economic and employment variables by regions in the U.K. The selected data set consists of about 374 regions described by 34 variables chosen by experts. The initial data are estimated percentages from the census so it is natural to transform them into confidence intervals to be more accurate. The divisive clustering algorithm SODAS-DIV is applied in order to get a decision tree describing some clusters. For the entire collection see [Zbl 1039.62501].
- The SODAS software package
- Comparing European labour force survey results from the Basque country and Portugal
- Cluster analysis of census data using the symbolic data approach
- Symbolic data analysis and the SODAS project: purpose, history, perspective
- An Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering Algorithm for Improving Symbolic Object Retrieval
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