Here’s another blog post from NLP consulting which looks at the rural-urban divide in deprivation. The author notes how the Indices of Deprivation focus on urban areas – there are more urban LSOAs than rural ones and they tend to rank as more deprived. Looking at England’s eight ‘Core Cities’ they point[…]
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The official research report looked at relative shifts in deprivation (link here), comparing indices from 2004 through to 2015. This analysis, from the blog for planning consultancy Nathaniel Lichfield and Partners, focuses on significant differences between 2010 and 2015 indices. It looks at the national picture and also analyses relative changes[…]
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ArcGIS, a mapping tool produced by geospatial company Esri, has loaded in all domains and indices from the 2015 English Indices of Deprivation release. The data is mapped at Local Authority, Parliamentary Constituency and Ward level. Take a look here.
Read More »Big Issue Invest (the social investment arm of the The Big Issue) carried out social impact research on behalf of Enterprise Ventures, a venture capital firm that provides loans and finance to small businesses in England and Wales. Working with research consultancy Geoeconomics, Big Issue Invest created a social value[…]
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The sustainability statement for the planned ‘phase two’ extension of the high speed rail link – which would go from Birmingham further north to destinations like Manchester and Leeds – contains a socio-economic appraisal which makes heavy use of deprivation statistics to claim various local development and regeneration opportunities. The[…]
Read More »The Bureau of Investigative Journalism collected data on the locations of payday lenders around the UK, noting that due to growth of the sector “there is now one short-term loans store for every seven banks or building societies on the high street”. They created a league table of local authorities[…]
Read More »It’s always interesting to see how private businesses use the Indices of Deprivation to create new products – often mapping or area statistics based. Some of these are based around the housing market and targeted at potential house buyers, integrating the Indices of Deprivation into an ‘area lookup’ function. For[…]
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