The ONS analysed levels of deprivation in the 57 largest seaside destinations to determine whether these areas – typically former seaside resorts – suffer from higher levels of deprivation than the average. They found that overall larger seaside destinations were more deprived than the England average in 2007 and 2010,[…]
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It’s before 10am on Friday morning and Howard Richards, 42, is drinking a beer outside Jaywick post office. He’s unemployed and on crutches because he’s having serious problems with his hip – he says he’s been on the NHS waiting list for months but he’s still waiting. Richards says he[…]
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Here’s some ONS data on differences between smoking rates in more and less deprived areas. They combined a 2012 household survey with IMD2010 to get a picture of how rates vary by deprivation: A clear correlation with deprivation appears, with both men and women in the most deprived 20% being[…]
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Source: Clare Bambra, CHIR, Durham University Data put together by Clare Bambra at the Centre for Health and Inequalities Research uses area health information for English Premier League teams to make a ‘Public Health League’ of teams, noting a significant North/South divide between the best and worst performing teams and pointing[…]
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[…]
Read More »The challenge of Britain’s aging population has been a recurrent issue in the media for the past few years. Recently the average UK age hit 40 and for the first time ever there are now more over 65s than under 16s in the country. Within this statistic the proportion of[…]
Read More »With rump steaks for 50p, 30 eggs for £2.10 and products from rival stores sitting alongside each other on the shelves, it is obvious that the Community Shop, which officially opened on Monday, is not the average supermarket. – Haroon Siddique, The Guardian, 15 December 2014 Community shop is the social[…]
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It’s always interesting finding examples of the different charities that use Indices of Deprivation to target initiatives. For example the Church and Community Fund gives grants to projects run by Anglican churches or organisations working in partnership with the Church. Targeting is based on deprivation: “Projects that are seeking grants must[…]
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Source: Guardian, Campaign for Fairer Gambling The Guardian ran an article on research by the Campaign for Fairer Gambling that suggests bookmakers are concentrated in, and take more money from, areas of higher deprivation as measured by the Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2010. Find out more: http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/feb/28/englands-poorest-spend-gambling-machines
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[…]
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For those interested in how deprivation might tie into voting patterns, blogger Alasdair Rae created maps of the 100 most and 100 least deprived parliamentary constituencies, highlighting the voting choice at the 2010 general election. He points out that the most obvious thing to note here is that the vast[…]
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