For understandable reasons, deprivation rarely has a positive connotation, and ‘deprived’ areas may face a sort of stigma – which can become in itself another problem that people living in these areas have to deal with. So it was great to hear about this ‘Hidden Histories’ project by Reading Museum[…]
Read More »As this article in the Telegraph discusses, researchers from Cambridge devised a method to identify gentrifying areas in London, comparing social media data (twitter and foursquare) with the Indices of Deprivation. “Researchers compared half a million tweets and Foursquare check-ins across more than 40,000 London locations, with area deprivation scores. They found that less[…]
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As someone who blogs about spatial analysis and deprivation we’re big fans of Alasdair Rae‘s work over here at OCSI – here’s a list of his work previously featured on this resource. At the end of last month he put out a nice deprivation map that highlights the 10% most and[…]
Read More »According to this HSCIC report, rates of alcohol consumption are higher in less deprived areas than in more deprived areas. Here’s a quote from the 2012 piece: “Men and women in the least deprived areas were more likely to have drunk alcohol than those in more deprived areas. In the[…]
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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[…]
Read More »As we have previously blogged, Alasdair Rae has provided access to an Indices of Deprivation 2015 shapefile, plus a map for every local authority in England. The shapefile was created by joining the original data from the Department of Communities and Local Government to a generalised LSOA boundary file sourced[…]
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This Deprivation and Road Safety report for TFL’s London Road Safety Unit, by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, looks at the association between deprivation and road traffic injury in London. They claim to have found a strong deprivation relationship, in particular for adult cyclists and adult[…]
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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[…]
Read More »Chapter 5 of the recently released official research report for IMD 2015 looks at changes in relative deprivation between different versions of the indices. The report notes that overall 58% of LSOAs did not change decile and that this was more pronounced at the extreme ends of the distribution where there[…]
Read More »The Cumbria Intelligence Observatory has published their analysis of Indices of Deprivation 2015 and what it means for Cumbria. Some headline stats: Cumbria ranks 86th nationally for overall deprivation (out of 152 upper tier local authorities, where 1 is the most deprived) Cumbria falls within the 57th percentile nationally for[…]
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Read More »Here’s a micro-study of Coalfield Regeneration in South Yorkshire by Julie Hanks & Paul Hanks, who use Indices of Deprivation data to analyse change over time in coalfield areas.
Read More »This 2011 report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) examined housing market volatility with a view to the socio-economic aspects. The authors claim that house price volatility disproportionately affects more deprived areas and noted strong regional differences in average house prices that reflect differences in terms of regional deprivation. As housing market growth[…]
Read More »This report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation analysed the link between area deprivation, poverty and ethnicity in England, drawing on existing research. They found that ethnic minorities were concentrated in deprived areas relative to non-deprived areas: “The proportion of ethnic minority people living in deprived neighbourhoods (according to IMD scores)[…]
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This study by Sheffield Hallam’s Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (2013) argued that the most deprived areas in England were also those most affected by the welfare reforms brought in by the coalition government, noting that “The three regions of northern England alone can expect to lose around[…]
Read More »From a 2007 Environment Agency paper that aimed to define the 50 ‘worst places’ in the country (by combining environmental indicators with the IMD2004), here’s a list of environment-related issues that have been linked to deprivation in various research (citations in document): Air quality – for five key pollutants, the[…]
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That’s the title of a report published by the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) in the run up to this year’s election. The authors found that voters in areas of higher deprivation were least likely to vote for one of the ‘big three’ main parties in 2010. Although they[…]
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The UK Medical Schools Council published a report on the need to widen participation in medicine, noting that this is important for wider social mobility as well as providing medicine with a wider talent pool. They analysed the backgrounds of trainee doctors in 2013 and found that 39% came from areas[…]
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In a study by the University of Sheffield’s Social & Spatial Inequalities Research Group, the Indices of Multiple Deprivation were used to look at pupil absence inequalities. Secondary school pupil absence is an indicator in the Education, Skills and Training Domain of the IMD, measured as “the proportion of authorised and unauthorised absences[…]
Read More »This is a study of consumer satisfaction with retail diversity that looked at consumer perceptions of store choice in their area. The authors found that people who live in deprived areas tended to be more satisfied with any given mix of shops than less deprived consumers, which might suggest that[…]
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In the aftermath of the widespread UK riots of August 2011, the Guardian created an interactive deprivation map placing locations where incidents took place in the context of area deprivation (although they use the term ‘poverty’, the map data is from the IMD 2010). However as commenters pointed out, while[…]
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[…]
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