Estimating households and populations from primary care electronic health records: comparison with Office for National Statistics Census 2021 aggregated estimates
Reliable, up-to-date populations and households estimates can be derived from health records. High residential mobility increases the complexity of deriving these estimates. Excluding people without GP encounters does not improve agreement with Census. Future work will focus on comparing Census and EHR estimates using individual-level data.
Authors
- Carol Dezateux (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9787-6276)
- Gill Harper (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3492-2076)
- Marta Wilk (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-5925-3511)
- Nicola Firman (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5213-5044)
- Chris Dibben (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1769-3774)
- Richard Fry (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7968-6679)
Institutions
- Queen Mary University of London (GB)
- Swansea University (GB)
- Institute of Geography (KZ)
- Centre de Géosciences (FR)
- University of Edinburgh (GB)
Publication Details
- Journal
- International Journal for Population Data Science
- Published
- 2025-11-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.23889/ijpds.v10i1.2958
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Data-Driven Disease Surveillance
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.35
Funders
- UK Research and Innovation
- Barts Charity
- Economic and Social Research Council