Construction of a linked postcode district toregional-level dataset for Great Britain

A one-to-one link is developed between overlapping sub-regional entities using geographi-cal tools newly available to the Economic Research Community. The aim of this project is tocreate a database exploiting the geographical variation in publicly available data, in order tobetter control for regional heterogeneity. The database covers the period 1995 to 2007, andincludes regional identiers at the postcode district, Local Authority, NUTS3 and Travel-To-Work Area levels of aggregation. Roughly 160 controls are available to the researcher. Thisdata could be used to provide new insights for Regional Policy Analysis. An example of anapplication of this resource in the context of unemployment duration can be found in (Balland Wilke, 2009) for the UK.