Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) administrative data provides grid-referenced locations for 5,753 opticians in England. The data represents unique physical locations, not a count of operating businesses, and was published by Neighbourhood Statistics. The dataset's temporal coverage is for the year 2004.
Use Cases
- Mapping healthcare service accessibility based on optician locations.
- Analyzing retail or commercial clustering patterns for ophthalmic establishments.
- Spatial modeling for public health or urban planning based on facility point data.
Strengths
- Contains 5,753 unique optician location records.
- Data is geo-referenced with grid coordinates for accurate mapping.
- Source is an official administrative body (HSCIC).
Limitations
- Data is from 2004 and may not reflect current locations.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is known, but specific data fields and formats are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC)
- Collection Method
- Administrative data
- Time Range
- 2004
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:18.797522; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- England