The town from the census is a modestly sized one sandwiched between two much larger cities that it is connected to by motorways. The town does not have a university, but students do live in the town and commute to the nearby cities. Once you have a cleaned dataset to analyse, your task is to decide the following:
(a) What should be built on an unoccupied plot of land that the local government wishes to develop? Your choices are:
(i) High-density housing. This should be built if the population is significantly expanding.
(ii) Low-density housing. This should be built if the population is “affluent” and there is demand for large family housing.
(iii) Train station. There are potentially a lot of commuters in the town and building a train station could take pressure off the roads. But how will you identify commuters?
(iv) Religious building. There is already one place of worship for Catholics in the town. Is there demand for a second Church (if so, which denomination?), or for a different religious building?
(v) Emergency medical building. Not a full hospital, but a minor injuries centre. This should be built if there are many injuries or future pregnancies likely in the population.
(vi) Something else?