Understanding the geography of changing places is core A-level geography, whichever board you are studying. This is a rich topic for NEA ideas. We all live and travel through a range of communities, each of which has interesting geographical stories to tell.
Part of achieving high marks in an NEA is demonstrating mastery of a range of techniques to understand the problem you have chosen to study. When studying changing places, both quantitative and qualitative techniques play important and complementary roles in telling the story of a place. In this issue, Richard Harris (pages 22–26) shows a number of ways in which quantitative data can be used to describe change in the character of communities over time. Links to census, schools and demographic data in Boxes 1 and 2 of his article are valuable sources of quantitative information about a place.
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