UK Social Capital Atlas

These datasets provide measures of Social Capital for MSOAs, postal code districts, and local authorities in the United Kingdom based on data from Facebook. The UK social capital dataset is the result of a collaboration between Meta, Behavioural Insights Team, the Royal Society of Arts, Stripe Partners, Neighbourly Lab and researchers from Opportunity Insights, New York University, and Stanford University. We use methods from the differential privacy literature to add noise to these aggregate statistics to protect privacy while maintaining a high level of statistical reliability.

See the accompanying README.pdf for more information on the dataset. We also attach a summary of research findings which highlights the main results of the research.

The methods used to create the dataset as well as the main findings of research into social capital in the UK can be found in the pre-print article. We will soon post the link to the pre-print article for researchers to cite when using this dataset. Until then, a copy of the article is available in the materials below.