https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/school-uniform
School uniform: Can it be bought more cheaply?
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/school-uniform
commandline education scraping uniform
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School uniform: Can it be bought more cheaply?
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/school-uniform
- Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
- Created: 2019-08-13T09:39:00.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2019-08-13T09:58:48.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:31:04.491Z (6 months ago)
- Topics: commandline, education, scraping, uniform
- Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49090913
- Size: 692 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# School uniform: Can it be bought more cheaply?
In August 2019 Rebecca Wearn and the data unit's Rob England [reported on the cost of school uniforms](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49090913).
The BBC compared school clothing on the websites of four large UK supermarkets and found the average prices were about £58 less for a primary school uniform and £118 less for a secondary school uniform than in the government's survey of parents.
The story also involved scraping a sample of 100 Facebook groups set up in Britain containing the words "school uniform" and "swap" or "free", and looked at how much some councils spent on school uniform grants.
## Get the data
* Research report: Cost of school uniform 2015 - [PDF](https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/436576/RR474_Cost_of_school_uniform.pdf)
* Report: The Children's Society: The Wrong Blazer 2018 - [PDF](https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/the-wrong-blazer-report-full-compressed_0.pdf)
* Facebook groups containing the words "school uniform" and "swap" or "free" (sample) - [XLSX file](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/school-uniform/raw/master/Scrape%20totals.xlsx)
## Quotes and interviews
* Yvonne Hall, founder, Facebook group for uniform donation
* Kate France, founder, Uniform Exchange charity
* Spokesman, Local Government Association
* Spokeswoman, Price and Buckland (school uniform supplier)
* Michael Franklin, National School Uniforms
* Carolyn Budding, YourSchoolUniform.com
* Emma Hardy, Labour MP for West Hull and Hessle and a former primary school teacher
* Spokeswoman, Department for Education
## Visualisation
* Infographic: Cost of school uniform
* Infographic: How much uniform do parents buy?
* Grouped bar chart: Difference (£) between average cost of uniform in supermarkets and government estimates
## Script
[This XML file](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/school-uniform/blob/master/facebook%20groups%20outwit%20scraper.xml) can be imported into OutWit Hub to extract details from Facebook groups (untick rows 7-10) or pages (untick rows 2-5).