Academic research using P² People & Places
Urban deprivation, migration and the impact of regeneration policy:
A geodemographic perspective (University of Liverpool)
The Department of Civic Design at the University of Liverpool uses P² to assess the degree to which regeneration activity has affected the level and characteristics of migration to, and from, deprived urban neighbourhoods.
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Methods for the spatial targeting of urban policy:
A comparative analysis (University of Liverpool)
This paper compares two spatial targeting approaches to determine the location of area-based policy initiatives within British cities: the Index of Multiple Deprivation and census-based geodemographic systems.
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The Spatial Targeting of Urban Policy Initiatives:
A Geodemographic Assessment Tool (University of Liverpool)
The University of Liverpool assesses the success of the area-based approach to the targeting of urban policy initiatives. P² is used to produce a generalised socio-economic profile for the Sure Start initiative in eight large provincial cities in England.
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Synthesis – Population Targeting:
Tools for Social Marketing (The North West Public Health Observatory)
The NWPHO tests various geodemographic classifications and concludes that "P² People & Places provides a greater level of discrimination by deprivation, and possibly other demographic and social measures, than other geodemographic classification systems."
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Where Wealth Means Health:
Illustrating Inequality in the North West (The North West Public Health Observatory)
The NWPHO uses P² People & Places to assess healthcare inequalities in the North West. The report shows how different geographic areas, with different lifestyles, ethnicities and rurality or urbanisation, all have different issues to contend with.