Tim, You will find information on WIC, the food supplement program, crime statistics on violent actions, assault, gun violence. Social housing might not be as easy to get, but census information is out and has income data. If you have access to health information you might see some interesting tie-in's between lifestyle illness (coronary artery disease, adult onset diabetes etc.) and income and crime along with school attendance/performance/graduation rates.
R has some useful applications for your purpose also.. Will you be mapping this? I have been approached by organizations to create maps with some similar information and it occurred to me that many police and municipal agencies are increasingly looking to GIS for analysis products. So they recognize the need and utility. So then I thought that a group or small consortium of NGO, Non-Profit and community organizations might be able to get data that would not otherwise be released or made available. Good Luck! On Dec 19, 2010, at 7:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Send developers-public mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of developers-public digest..." > Today's Topics: > > 1. Data on social housing/benefit claimants/antisocial behaviour > (Tim Morley) > > From: Tim Morley <[email protected]> > Date: December 18, 2010 3:29:01 PM EST > To: general purpose discussion list mySociety public > <[email protected]> > Subject: [mySociety:public] Data on social housing/benefit > claimants/antisocial behaviour > Reply-To: "mySociety public, general purpose discussion list" > <[email protected]> > > > I'd like to know if there are any datasets that I can look at to tell me > about the overlap between: > — people who live in social housing > — people who claim Jobseeker's Allowance/Housing Benefit/Council Tax > Benefit/etc. > — people who are responsible for antisocial behaviour > > If you believe what you read in several popular newspapers, the above three > groups are pretty much congruous with each other. I have a suspicion that > it's somewhat more complicated than that, but I would like to be able to back > up my feeling with some actual data; otherwise it just boils down to "my > prejudice is better than yours". > > I'm tangentially aware that loads of government data is becoming available, > but I have to confess I know little more about it than that, and wouldn't > know what datasets to start looking for where. > > Any help much appreciated. Ta in advance. > > > Tim > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list [email protected] > Unsubscribe, archive or settings: > https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
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