What is Neighbourhood Knowledge Management?

Until now statistics from whatever source at the local level have been collated into area units such as districts, wards or output areas. There are at least four major difficulties with this approach:

• Boundaries are inflexible and do not link easily to neighbourhoods;
• They are subject to frequent change, causing disruption and additional work locally;
• The statistics linked to them are often years out of date;
• The value of results based on the data is undermined by possible false correlations.

The result is that local planning and analysis is seriously hindered and possibly incorrect in the detail. Resources and initiatives may be poorly targeted and wasted as a consequence.

The Δnkm approach, developed over the last four years, overcomes these difficulties by unlocking the value in local administrative data systems and linking the information at household level using the local property database, which is a register of all properties in a local authority area.

Click here for the LINK Toolkit web pages.