Familiar fieldwork - human

Question 1

Title

Answer 1

How does the quality of life vary in Reigate?

Question 2

Theory

Answer 2

Index of Multiple deprivation (IMD)
World Health Organisation’s (WHO)
Quality of life index

Question 3

Sampling

Answer 3

Stratified choice of sites
Systematic along each road

Question 4

Primary data

Answer 4

Environmental Quality Survey
Photographs
Car survey (epitome words, soundscape)

Question 5

Secondary data

Answer 5

Census data (2021)
Index of Multiple deprivation (IMD)
Zoopla for house prices
Newspaper articles

Question 6

Risks

Answer 6

• Risks from traffic - only cross roads at pedestrian crossings, be aware, stay on pavements
• Risk from strangers (mugging etc) - stay in groups, keep valuables in bags, don’t give out personal info
• Weather - suncream, hat, raincoat
• Getting lost - stay in groups

Question 7

Conclusion

Answer 7

Quality of life improves as you move from south to north in Reigate. For example, environmental quality and socio-economic characteristics improve. There is some evidence to support that quality of life also gets better with height, demonstrated by the higher price of properties which are located at the top of a hill where the area is more desirable e.g. High Trees Road.

Question 8

Evaluation

Answer 8

• Methods support conclusions to some extent. By splitting Reigate into zones provided good spatial coverage. 10 streets were sampled which meant a good representation of the area which was achieved
• Problems with data collection methods: subjective nature of carrying out an EQS - views vary - could under/over score an area’s environmental quality
• EQS only graded environmental factors and their qualities from -2 to +2 - relatively small scale - hard to differentiate good and bad quality (enlarge this scale)
• Certain streets not represented in the data collected, therefore not true representation necessarily of urban zoning (enlarge no. of streets investigated)
• to improve, results could be supported from further data from the Census and Index of Multiple deprivation to provide a greater insight into socio-economic characteristics

Question 9

Data presentation of EQS data

Answer 9

Multiple bar chart - allows a range of indicators to be compared for each site

Question 10

Data presentation of spatial variation

Answer 10

Proportional circles using GIS

Question 11

Data presentation of features of the site

Answer 11

Annotated photograph - good for qualitative data, shows key features of site and explains results

Question 12

Data representation for types of cars

Answer 12

Pie chart - shows proportion of different types of cars