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June 28, 2013

Measuring socio-economic status: IRU response

The IRU supports the proposals set down in Moving to an Enhanced Indicator of Higher Education Students’ Socio-economic Status for a more precise locational SES measure using geographical data at the SA1 level (based on the SEIFA IEO).
The final proposal makes sense but the discussion paper shows up the mixed objectives that bedevil the area.