MapInfo an introduction

1
Joint Centre for Scottish Housing Research
European Typology on Homelessness and
Housing Exclusion Data collection on Service
Users
2
People in social emergency profile and pathways

• FEANTSA Report on Urgence Sociale
• Traditional
• single male, aged 30-60, alcohol / addiction
  problems
• New and emerging profiles
• women
• young people and children
• people coming from institutions (prisons,
  hospitals, orphanages)
• working poor
• migrants (many with undocumented status)

3
Counting people in social emergency

• Definition of Population
• Makeshift dwellings / streets / transport
• Couch surfers (staying with friends)
• Service Users (night shelters)
• Non-private household accommodation
• Survey / census approach
• INSEE Survey
• Australia Census Plus
• UK Bi-annual count / rough sleepers

4
INSEE Survey 2001
5
Issues in counting

• Enumeration points / units
• Under-counts / double-counts
• Timing (season / repetition / duration)
• Surveys sample size, non-response
• Purpose count, profile
• Methods training enumerators, costs
• Data handling weighting / adjustment
• Redundancy of data

6
Approaches to data collection

• Clarity of purpose
• Accommodation / Services to be included
• Database of services / facilities
• Triangulation approach
• Service users by continuous recording
• Non-service users by survey
• Institutional population
• Better discharge data on housing outcome