Data Discoveries are suppliers of a range of data files, which give our customers the freedom to choose the best files to use without being limited to one supplier.
Some of our suppliers and the files we are licensed to supply are listed below, grouped by type, with more information supplied further down the page.
To see which files are available in our products please see our products data matrix
Data Discoveries are impartial and the information is supplied for guidance only, direct from the supplier.
Address/ Telephone
- Royal Mail Postcode Address File
- National Telephone Database
- Experian National Canvasse
Suppression & Preference
- DeCease
- Equifax disConnect & reConnect
- Millennium Mortascreen & Halo
- Royal Mail NCOA, USS (Bereavement, Goneaway & Archive)
- DMA TPS, CTPS, MPS, BMPS
- Experian Deceased & Goneaway
Enhancement
Business Data Sources
- Market Location Business Universe
- Thomson Business Database
- Royal Mail Business Changes File
Additionally we are happy to source additional data for clients who have specific requests. If this is the case please contact us.
Files & Suppliers:
Data Discoveries are impartial and the information is supplied for guidance only, direct from the supplier.
Royal Mail's Postcode Address File
The Postcode Address File (PAF®) is the most up-to-date and complete address database in the UK, containing over 28 million addresses. PAF is an invaluable tool for creating and maintaining mailing lists and databases, as well as reducing the number of returned or undelivered items.
Database contains all known UK addresses and postcodes
Available in a range of file and media formats
PAF is the only complete source of all known UK postcodes.
Experian's National Canvasse
NATIONAL CANVASSE CONTRIBUTIONS
- Annual Canvasse
- Rolling Register changes
- Contributor data
- Lifestyle data
- Suppression and verification data
The Contributor data is made up of large transactional databases, of records where there is knowledge of a person transacting at the address within the last 12 months.
The Lifestyle data is made up of Experian online and paper-based surveys that have been completed in the last 12 months.
SUPPRESSION & VERIFICATION
When built each month, the following suppressions are applied:
- Absolute Movers
- Mortality Suppressions
- Mortascreen Plus
National Canvasse is rebuilt monthly because:
- Updates to the sources provide new individuals
- Suppressions identify an individual is no longer at their stated address (mover or deceased data)
- Changes in the verification data used to confirm names provided from older records are still resident at the address
De Cease
A bereavement suppression file unqiue to Data Discoveries. Sourced from Governement records and updated monthly.
Equifax offer a range of data services to consumers and businesses. Their business data includes credit referencing files and marketing services.
This is Equifax’s suppression service that comprises of a file of approximately 25 million records drawn from Equifax Gone Aways, deceased and do-not-mail records.
Register or login to download a fact sheet.
reConnect
A service that complements disConnect by providing a forwarding address for a percentage of addresses that are confirmed as goneaways within the suppression file.
Register or login to download a fact sheet.
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Mortascreen
Mortascreen is the largest and most comprehensive source of both recent and historical deceased data currently available. The file contains over 6 million deceased records and is updated monthly with around 45,000 new records. These records are obtained from a number of sources to ensure the best possible coverage without compromising reliability.
Sources include probate records, leading funeral providers, insurance companies, and Millennium 's own registration scheme. Mortascreen captures over 85% of all deaths in the UK with at least 92% of all records being fully verified. Data is added to the file on a monthly basis.
With over 1,500 deaths every day it's vital that marketing databases are kept up to date to ensure cost-effective campaigns and to avoid the negative publicity that mailing the deceased can create. Mortascreen achieves about 100% more matches than any other deceased files.
Halo is a unique system which addresses the requirement for the effective and early detection of deceased fraud. Halo was developed to allow credit related organisations, such as debt recovery companies, access to deceased information.
Confidence Indicators are available to show the originating source of the deceased information.
These indicators include:
- Governmental Records - Official certified deaths.
- Funeral Directors - Records supplied by agreement after burial or cremation.
- Data Exchange - Through major UK insurance companies.
- Deceased Preference Service - Consumer collection service.
Royal Mail's Universal Suppression Service
Royal Mail's Universal Suppression Service provides names and addresses of people who have moved in the UK, allowing you to flag or delete customer records that are no longer valid.
- Flags or removes goneaways from your database
- Up to 30 million records available
- Choice of files covering 10 years
- Reduces costs and wastage.
You can get better results from your direct mail activity and reduce the cost of handling returned mail by using Universal Suppression Service.
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Royal Mail's National Change of Address
To stay in touch with your valuable customers, Royal Mail's National Change of Address service lets you trace customers who have moved home and keep your customer records clean and up to date.
- Helps you keep track of your most valuable customers
- Access to 15 million records, covering 10 years
- Improves the accuracy of your database
The Telephone Preference Service allows consumers to opt-out of receiving unsolicited sales and marketing calls to their home or mobile telephone numbers. It is a legal requirement that all organisations (including charities, voluntary organisations and political parties) do not make such calls to numbers registered on the TPS unless they have the individual’s consent to do so.
The term ‘individual’ includes consumers at their residential address, sole traders and partnerships (except in Scotland).
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The Corporate Telephone Preference Service (CTPS) allows businesses to register a business number to opt-out of receiving unsolicited sales and marketing calls. This must be done in writing or via the TPS website by a named contact and re-registered each year.
Use of the Corporate Telephone Preference Service is also a legal requirement for organisations making sales and marketing calls.
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The Mailing Preference Service (MPS) was set up in 1983. It is a compiled list of individuals who would prefer not to receive unsolicited direct mail. It is compiled from online and written requests sent to the Mail Preference Service, (MPS). Registrations can be at individual or household level for five years.
Use of the Mailing Preference Service reduces wasted mail and ensures communications go to individuals who will react positively to receiving direct mail.
Baby Mailing Preference Service allows families who have suffered the loss of a child or unborn baby to register to opt out of receiving baby related mailings.
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ACORN was the first and is still one of the most powerful consumer analysis and targeting tools. It enables marketeers to better understand the kind of people buying their goods and services or shopping in their stores. Public sector organisations benefit from the depth of neighbourhood understanding provided by ACORN. By analysing key census variables and lifestyle characteristics, it provides precise information and an in-depth understanding of the different types of consumers in every part of the country.
The Financial ACORN classification has been created using the latest Census data and gfkNOP's Financial Research Survey (FRS), the largest and most respected financial survey in Great Britain. For the first time ever it uses lifestyle variables, making Financial ACORN the most powerful postcode level consumer discriminator currently available, and it gives the clearest picture possible of the UK financial customer.
PeopleUK is CACI's individual level life stage based classification. It breaks the UK population into four life stage groups: Starting, Growing, Maturing and Advancing and then assigns each adult in the UK into one of 50 different types based on their life stage, wealth and lifestyle. PeopleUK is easy to apply, having all the benefits of a traditional classification whilst being accurate and detailed, and available at individual level.
All of CACI's classification tools can be used for:
- Profiling for customer understanding
- Direct marketing lists either as manual or profiled selections
- Model building by selecting discriminatory types
- Coding and segmenting customer or prospect data
Market Location Business Data
Market Location is a specialist UK business data owner; we research business information and own a database of 2.3 million businesses across the UK. Our data can be used in two unique ways, firstly for b2b direct marketing whereby marketers can accurately target their prospects with their marketing campaigns, and secondly for business directory use whereby 118 directory companies and other web directories can offer our data to their users by integrating our data into their own services or software.
We have developed the most accurate and comprehensive database in the marketplace, and as we are the only UK company operating exclusively in the data market to own such a list we update it faster than anyone else in the industry. From information as simple as a phone number to fuel card renewal dates and restaurant facilities, we have it. And if we don’t have the information you need, we can use our UK based call centre to find it for you.
