Fieldwork - urban

• IMD

  Index of Multiple Deprivations that breaks down and focuses on: income, life expectancy, education, transport, open space, employment and crime
• Geography enquiry

  Investigate now and why quality of life varies within urban areas (as you go further from the centre)
• Measures

  • Income
  • Life expectancy
  • Employment rate
  • Crime
  • Air quality
• Need to collect data on population density (estimate open space), noise pollution, Lower QoL
• Birmingham chosen because it is accessible, more than 200,000 people
• Methodology

  Followed a transect line with stratified sampling to assess QoL
• Data collected

  • Primary data- quantitative - sound + air pollution, pedestrian count
  • Qualitative - epitome word + photos, subjective - epitome word
  • Objective - noise + air pollution, pedestrian count
• Noise pollution + pedestrian count patterns are inconclusive whilst air pollution is worse in the city centre, we could swap pedestrian count for traffic count
• Census data

  Provides greater understanding of the cities economic and socio-economic characteristics and it allows comparison, but doesn't provide data on specific areas, also it's volunteered, so is dependant on user input accuracy
• IMD

  Provides more detailed info of QoL, gives very focused data, improves reliability and accuracy of the study, but suggests our findings are inaccurate
• Spearman's rank shows our data is >95% reliable