Distance to green (or blue) spaces

The TILDA study has also linked map data to investigate any association between the

proximity of green space to obesity for older adults living in urban areas. Data from

the European Urban Atlas 2012, produced by the European Union was used for that

analysis, and was linked to individual households using geocodes (Dempsey et al.,

2018b). A similar methodology was used to look at the effect of proximity to coastal

blue space for the depression scores of TILDA participants, this time using map data

from Ordnance Survey Ireland (Dempsey et al., 2018a) The successful linkage with

the TILDA dataset suggests that a similar exercise to link geographical data to

Growing Up in Ireland households is theoretically possible.

Distance to services (schools, GPs etc)