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Evaluating Peterborough’s ‘no cold calling’ initiative using space-time
Bayesian hierarchical modelling
Guangquan Li*, Robert Haining+, Sylvia Richardson* and Nicky Best*
+University of Cambridge*Imperial College, London
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Definition of a “cold call”
• A visit or a telephone call to a consumer by a trader, whether or not the trader supplies goods or services, which takes place without the consumer expressly requesting the contact.
• Not illegal but often associated with forms of burglary and “rogue trading”.
• To discourage cold calling police have targeted specific neighbourhoods as “no cold calling” (NCC) areas: street and house signage; information packs for residents; informal follow-up meetings.
• Scheme initiated in 2005 and extended in 2006.
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Locations of the NCC areas in Peterborough
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Data on “No Cold Calling”
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Raw data: individual and aggregated temporal profiles
Positive impact of policy?
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ID Matching criterion No. of LSOAs
1 All LSOAs in Peterborough 88
2 ±10% burglary rate of the NCC group in 2005 9
3 ±20% burglary rate of the NCC group in 2005 20
4 ±30% burglary rate of the NCC group in both 2004 and 2005 8
5 LSOAs containing the NCC-targeted COAs (but excluding the NCC-targeted COAs)
9 (one LSOA is outside Peterborough)
6 LSOAs that had “similar” multiple deprivation scores (MDS) as those for the NCC LSOAs in 2004
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Constructing the control group- areas are selected that have similar local
characteristics (e.g. burglary rates; deprivation scores) to those in the NCC-targeted group.
- Lower Super Output Area (LSOA) framework used to obtain reliable control trend
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