Talking of changing geography, you’ve been developing another approach, haven’t you?
During my PhD, I got very involved with building gridded models of population.
Using a grid mapping approach, the total population is turkey rcs data reallocated into regular grid squares on the map. left empty.
It’s a really simple idea, but quite hard to bring off.
What it offers, though, is much more realistic population densities in different contexts where people live, whether that be city centres or villages.
Gridded maps also incorporate genuinely unpopulated spaces, meaning there’s no risk of trying to attach rates of unemployment or deprivation to places where there aren’t people like mountain sides or open countryside. For these reasons are better suited to studying change over time and linkage with data from environmental models.
Quite a few countries around the world routinely think of their census data as a gridded dataset, which I find fascinating, as it shows that other countries think about their social data very differently to here.
Northern Ireland has produced gridded population data from the census since 1971. England and Wales did it in 1971 but it wasn’t continued meaning there’s been an amazing loss of potential insights.