The Department for Communities and Local Government have published official guidance on using the indices of deprivation – access the full document here. The annex contains a full list of the data files and supporting documents released for the 2015 Indices. Part of the guidance that might be particularly relevant for users[…]
Read More »Use categories on the left to search the site for users of the Indices of Deprivation by sector: central government, local government, the media, health, private sector, academics/researchers, and the third sector. There’s a breakdown of the different sectors here. Use tags to look for specific ways the IMD has been used. Some tags[…]
Read More »A tool created by Swirrl and powered by Linked Open Data from opendatacommunities.org on behalf of MHCLG, as part of the Indices of Deprivation 2019 data release. The postcode lookup tool lets you enter up to 10,000 postcodes to get the deprivation data you want in a choice of an Excel or CSV[…]
Read More »These Index of Multiple Deprivation maps have been produced by Alasdair Rae at the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government. There is one map for each of England’s 317 local authority areas.
Read More »A lava lamp poster visualisation by Open Data Manchester which measures deprivation in English Local Authorities against political control of the area.
Read More »These dashboards were developed at an event co-hosted by Concentra and Tableau with public sector professionals collaborating to put these dashboards together.
Read More »An interactive map by Head of Data Visualisation at ONS Rob Fry, which includes domain breakdowns for each area.
Read More »This paper looks at relative levels of deprivation across parliamentary constituencies in England, including which constituencies have become more deprived or less deprived relative to other areas. Estimates have been calculated by the House of Commons Library using data published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG)[…]
Read More »Trafford data lab visualises the English Indices of Deprivation 2019 for Lower-layer Super Output Areas (LSOA) in England, by Local Authority. Including a breakdown across each domain.
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Mapping selected datasets from CDRC Data, part of the Consumer Data Research Centre. Use these interactive maps to explore the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2019 at LSOA level.
Read More »New data released by the Obesity Health Alliance (OHA) – a coalition of different health-related groups such as charities, pressure groups and academic bodies – sheds further light on health related obesity inequalities (previously featured on this resource here). Based on existing trends, the OHA models likely obesity rates by 2020 and reveals[…]
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A quick piece here on an excellent dataviz created by University of Manchester researchers. Dr Kingsley Purdam and his team mapped female and male life expectancy and IMD deciles across different areas of Greater Manchester to Metrolink tram stops. The result demonstrates striking disparities over relatively short distances – for example between[…]
Read More »A short piece here to highlight an interview with Sarah Hanness from charity Inclusion Ventures on how Jaywick’s status as the most deprived area in England has helped her organisation secure vital funding from Big Lottery and the local council. Inclusion Ventures provide out of school activities for young people[…]
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This study models the development of the 2011 London riots and interaction between police and rioters through ‘probability of arrest’ which alters depending on ratios of police to rioters at a scene. The authors use deprivation as part of spatial analysis to shed light on why some areas were more affected[…]
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This open access journal article from the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health provides a nice in-depth look at the history and development of UK multiple deprivation measures as well as some of the IMD’s advantages, disadvantages and uses in targeting social spending in the UK. The full article[…]
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Wild flower campaign Grow Wild – recently voted the UK’s best environmental project in national lottery awards – has had particular impact in deprived areas. According to interviews and focus groups conducted by Forest Research people in the most deprived areas benefitted most from community projects and seed kits provided through the programme,[…]
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Nottingham is spending almost £2 million on training ‘super parents’ to provide new families with advice and support, targeting the most deprived areas of the city. As covered in the Nottingham Post: “Mums and dads will be paired with a family mentor, who will also support them with issues like[…]
Read More »According to this study published in BMJ Open there is an interesting health inequality associated with deprivation and kidney disease. The research cites previous studies showing that: “people from socioeconomically deprived populations are more likely to have Chronic Kidney Disease, more likely to require dialysis, but less likely to receive a live-donor[…]
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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[…]
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Leeds Observatory has put out an interesting deprivation map. The map is quite interactive in its display options – users can highlight LSOAs from different deciles, and information about selected areas is displayed in a box on the right, showing its England IMD rank and allowing you to zoom in to its map location.[…]
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Oxford city council has published both summary findings and a detailed report on the updated deprivation statistics. The report notes that although the majority of Oxford LSOAs are in the least deprived half of the 2015 Indices there is still a “significant proportion” of areas in the most deprived 30% nationally[…]
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Social Enterprise UK has published a report into the state of social enterprise in the UK, providing a broadly positive overview of the sectors development in 2015. It’s quite comprehensive and draws out some interesting statistics on social enterprises, suggesting some differences between social enterprises and other businesses: – 41% of social enterprises[…]
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Teach First is an educational charity that targets educational disadvantage by coordinating teacher training placements in deprived schools. Participants gain qualified teacher status through a paid two year training programme. The government’s charity register lists Teach First as having spent over £45 million on charitable activity over the last year and[…]
Read More »UCL’s Institute of Health Equity publishes ‘Marmot Indicators’ inspired by the well known Marmot Review of 2010 (previously covered on this resource). These include economic, health and education indicators picked to represent the “social determinants of health, health outcomes and social inequality.” These indicators are contrasted at local authority level with[…]
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Here is a recent statistical bulletin by the ONS looking at differences in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy between people living in the most deprived and least deprived areas in England between 2009-2013, using the 2015 indices. Some headline points: England average life expectancy at birth for men was 79.1 years, and[…]
Read More »A new study conducted by researchers at the University of York has found a potential association between deprivation, higher mental health needs and worse mental health outcomes. According to the summary article on the University of York’s website, deprived communities in England tend to have more mental health referrals from medical[…]
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Academic/blogger Alasdair Rae (often featured on this site) has used the data from our updated Indices of Deprivation to demonstrate the area deprivation of Premier League Football team home grounds. Overall they tend to be in relatively deprived areas – he notes that “more than half of all Premier League[…]
Read More »“Neighbourhoods where there is a strong attachment to traditional values of thrift, hard work and independence; where there is a reluctance to rely on the state; where there is a concern to do one’s best for one’s children. Is this Middle England? No, it’s a description of six disadvantaged neighbourhoods across[…]
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Public Health England has an excellent open data tool in its Health Profiles which hold a huge amount of health and socioeconomic statistics available at different levels in England. You can use the tool to create interactive maps, charts and tables, compare or benchmark areas against each other, generate pdf document[…]
Read More »STREAM is a local information system for North Yorkshire and York (STatistics REsearch And Mapping) and they have recently updated with Indices of Deprivation 2015 data. The site is free for anyone to use and has a wealth of statistics available, with service information such as schools as well as[…]
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