Human: Newcastle (HiNa)

Question 1

Newcastle?

Answer 1

HUMAN

Question 2

Title?

Answer 2

Housing inequality exists in Newcastle (= difference in the quality of housing)

Question 3

Why Newcastle?

Answer 3

• No permission - can get there and back

- Large urban area with contrasting areas of socio-economic groups.

Question 4

Risk Assessment?

Answer 4

• Get lost - work in groups, register phones

- Traffic accident - cross at safe place

Question 5

Methodology - Primary?

Answer 5

• Environmental quality survey
• 2 areas - Benwell & Jesmond
• 0 to 6 on aspects of housing quality
• quality of external up-keep, density, garden-size.

Question 6

Methodology - Secondary?

Answer 6

• Census data tenure

- Reliable/ Trustworthy

Question 7

Data Presentation?

Answer 7

Primary - Located bar graphs
- simple, visual, and enables comparison -
same scale
Secondary - Census data - Located pie charts
- Different sample size - % comparison
- Visual
BOTH LOCATED - SPATIAL DISPLAY, DIFFERENCES EASY TO SPOT, TIES DATA TO LOCATION.

Question 8

Links to hypothesis?

Answer 8

Sampling - stratified - the 2 areas were chosen beforehand - determine whether there are differences in housing quality.

Question 9

Conclusion?

Answer 9

Primary data showed a significant difference in housing quality between the 2 areas (compare total score). Secondary data reinforces this to some extent.

Question 10

Evaluation?

EBI
SOLUTION

Answer 10

1) Primary - only visited 2 sites and only used a few categories – visit more sites (26 wards) and use more categories
2) Secondary - Only looked at one category (tenure) – use more housing indicators (income/ employment)

Question 11

Evaluation of presentation: What was not good?

Answer 11

Bar graphs - just using the overall score for housing quality didn’t allow for the comparisons of the different categories that were scored - thy could have been split up to make a more detailed graph.

Question 12

Analysis: Primary?

Answer 12

The bar graphs show that Benwell has a lower environmental quality score than Jesmond. Benwell’s total environmental score was 12 while Jesmond’s was 30. This is a diff of 18.

Question 13

Analsyis: Secondary?

Answer 13

• In J, 58% of properties were rented privately, but in B, only 13% were private rented.
• B’s largest segment was social rented at 41%. Social rented was only 5% in J.
• 20% of properties in J were owned outright, which is the same amount % as B.
• B has more houses owned with a mortgage or loan (26%) than Jesmond 17%.

Question 14

How could the conclusions have affected by the methodology?

Answer 14

• Overall secondary data (tenure) is reliable and trusted despite the small sample. But, the environmnetal quality survey is less reliable - making conc less valid. Nevertheless, looking at all the information it does link to the theory that socio-economic inequalities exist in urban areas nd the conc that housing inequality exists in urban areas is correct. If this fieldwork was repeated with teh improvements suggested, the conclusion would me more valid, but still not 100% reliable.