![]() If we download the data for the City of Edinburgh Local Authority we get the data for all 549 datazones in Sheet 2. The spreadsheet is in Microsoft Excel format (.xlsx) but can also be opened in other programs such as ’s free Calc program (go to to download). Ī spreadsheet will download, containing information about the dataset (‘Sheet 0’), Abbreviations and definitions (‘Sheet 1’), the data (‘Sheet 2’), and descriptions of the data columns (‘Sheet 3’).Select ‘Whole of Scotland’ or ‘Selected Local Authorities’ or ‘Selected Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies’.Click on ‘DATA DOWNLOAD’ and enter your contact information (used by us confidentially to find out how the data are being used).The map is useful for looking at the stats for a single neighbourhood (datazone S01002070 in this case, as shown in the text box) and seeing the general patterns of outlet density, health and deprivation in the surrounding area, but what if you want to look at the data in greater depth, for example to find out how that neighbourhood ranks against others? To do this you can download the data for the area of interest, or the whole of Scotland: you’ll need to scroll down to see all the information in the text box) The map and text box should look like this after following the steps above: (N.B. It is not the number of outlets within each datazone – such a measure wouldn’t be comparable between neighbourhoods because they differ in size so widely, and would also be artificially constrained by the neighbourhood boundaries in a way that residents aren’t in real life. ![]() Outlet availability is measured as density (per km 2) within a 10-minute walk (800 m) of the neighbourhood’s population centre. When a neighbourhood has been highlighted yellow on the map (by clicking) a text box will appear under the map to give more information about the neighbourhood, and how it compares with the rest of the Local Authority and Scotland on each of the measures (see image below for what it should look like). To look at how this changes when the neighbourhood is compared to the rest of the Local Authority (rather than the rest of Scotland), click the ‘LA average button’ and do the search again. The red shading shows that this neighbourhood is among the highest in Scotland for all alcohol outlets, off-sales alcohol outlets, on-sales alcohol outlets, tobacco outlets, and alcohol-related deaths, but the light blue shading shows that it has lung cancer/lung disease death rates and deprivation levels below the Scottish average. You’ll notice that the colour key for the map ranges from dark blue for the lowest values, to deep red for the highest values. Choose between the different data layers (using round buttons on right side of the map).When you find it click on postcode EH8 9QW on the map – this will highlight (in yellow) the neighbourhood that the postcode is in.Zoom in to highest zoom level (click the button) to see the postcode layer.Type the postcode into the search box, then press enter or click on ‘find’.Select ‘Scottish average’ rather than ‘LA average’, on the left of the map.We will begin by comparing this neighbourhood to the Scottish average. For this example we’ll look at what the webmap can tell us about an Edinburgh neighbourhood – one that contains the postcode EH8 9QW. You can pan around the map and zoom in and out to different areas, or use the search box to search by street, place name or postcode. The different layers are described in more detail at. all alcohol outlets, tobacco outlets or alcohol-related deaths). You can use the map legend panel on the right to select which neighbourhood measure you want to see on the map (e.g. For example – in ‘Scottish average’ mode we see that the highest densities of alcohol outlets (shaded red) are confined to the main cities and towns, but when compared against the ‘Local Authority average’ we find that some smaller localities are highlighted too, particularly in councils with outlet densities lower than those in Edinburgh or Glasgow. You can choose whether the map shading shows how each neighbourhood compares with the Scottish average or the average for the specific local authority that the neighbourhood is within. You’ll see some instructions to the left of the map – how to turn layers on/off, zoom, search, find out more about a neighbourhood, go fullscreen, find out about the underlying data, and download the data. Then click on the link or map to go to the webmap. ![]() Try using a newer browser – such as the free Google Chrome browser that you can download from
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