The papers in this issue exemplify in various ways the value of the Samples of Anonymised Records (SARs) for Britain and Northern Ireland to spatial and area-level research. Before highlighting some of the strengths of the SARs for this type of analysis we give a brief overview of the structure and content of the SARs.
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