title: The generation of socioeconomic surfaces for public policymaking.
abstract: The development is explained of a technique to generate 'modeled' surfaces of census-type socioeconomic survey data that offer the potential to overcome many of the problems inherent in the analysis and presentation of such data in conventional area-based form.  Potential benefits of the modeled surfaces include a level of resolution that arguably can provide a more finely focused spatial basis for the generation of a wide range of spatial indicators that can aid public policy making.  This type of application requires that the method is set within a flexibly managed information framework and includes suitable tests for the reliability of the generated surfaces.
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Bracken
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D005843:Geography; D008377:Maps as Topic; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011153:Population; D011156:Population Density; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012106:Research; D012107:Research Design; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom
keywords: Area Analysis; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Geographic Factors; Maps; Mathematical Model; Measurement; Models, Theoretical; Northern Europe; Population; Population Density; Reliability; Research Methodology; Socioeconomic Factors; Spatial Distribution; United Kingdom