[open-government] Search UK Electoral Role

Thu Feb 20 14:04:50 UTC 2014

Hi folks,

We're doing some research need to be able to cross reference the frequency
with which distinct names and date of birth combinations appear in a given
dataset with the general population.

We had considered using the UK Electoral Roll as a source for the analysis
on "general population" - but one has to purchase that and it's slightly
outside our budget :) (Ideally, we would also be able to take names and
dates of birth from multiple countries, but we can deal with UK for now.)

This is literally statistical analysis - we just need to see how many hits,
not any specific details on individuals.

My question:

* Does anyone know of a way that one can query the electoral roll data,
without purchasing the entire dataset?

OR

* Does anyone else know of any other datasets that would give a
representative sample of the UK (full name + date of birth (even better +
nationality)), or a given country's population?

Weird question, but grateful if anyone has any ideas!

Lucy

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