“Six steps charities can follow to master data to boost funding” This is an article in Third Sector magazine, a publication for the UK’s voluntary and not-for-profit sector. Among the valuable insights is this gem on use of open data: “There are plenty of open data sources which can enrich your own[…]
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‘The State of the North’, a report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) includes a look at differences in early years attainment in the regions. This chart shows the difference both between and within regions:
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This guardian article on calls for a ‘sugar tax’ cites statistics on child obesity prevalence by deprivation: As it happens these Public Health England (PHE) obesity statistics have been mentioned before on this site. But the association with deprivation made us curious about whether sugar consumption has a similar relationship. This[…]
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Renaisi, a London-based social enterprise, have written this interesting blog post on shifts in relative deprivation in the City Fringe, comparing shifts in this area from IMD 2004-2015 and arguing that “a core of people are being left behind” by gentrification.
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[…]
Read More »Norfolk County’s online data resource Norfolk Insight has been updated with the 2015 Indices. What is interesting about this site is the area profile tool which lets visitors to the site create a simple deprivation report for different areas within Norfolk – at CCG level, local authority district and LSOA.
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Here’s a deprivation report from Manchester city council looking at changes in the city relative to the 2010 Indices of Deprivation. The report notes that: “Manchester has been ranked as first in the rank of the proportion of LSOAs that are in the most deprived 10% nationally in the Health[…]
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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[…]
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Here’s an excellent blog post by Oliver O’Brien, a researcher at UCL Department of Geography. He has published a few different maps on the CDRC maps platform (a mapping tool which features deprivation as well as consumer and retail datasets) showing overall multiple deprivation as well as changes in multiple deprivation and[…]
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[…]
Read More »Reaching Communities is a £75 million Big Lottery fund for land and buildings projects in disadvantaged areas. According to the FAQs the fund is targeted at deprived areas due to significant demand, therefore applicants requesting more than £100,000 must be based in one of the 20% most deprived LSOAs in England based on[…]
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Managed by Sport England, The Community Sport Activation Fund is a £47.5 million Lottery funding programme aiming to provide grassroots sports activity at very local levels. Amounts granted range from £50,000 to £250,000. There is a unique deprivation targeting method involved where applicants can apply without partnership funding: “If the[…]
Read More »The Newham Recorder has an article summarising local changes in relative deprivation, observing that while deprivation levels have fallen significantly income deprivation affecting older people still remains an issue. This is a good example of use of how the two additional indices can be used to focus on income deprivation[…]
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The Coventry Telegraph has run a few stories featuring the newly updated Indices of Deprivation. Coverage focuses on an LSOA in Coventry which is the most deprived area in the Midlands and 8th most deprived in England. The site also has reactions to the news from members of the public and a[…]
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DataRich, a public data and analysis site for Richmond-upon-Thames, published this briefing note using the updated Indices statistics. The short report is an interesting example of how areas like Richmond-upon-Thames that are relatively less deprived than most can still make use of the Indices by identifying local changes in relative deprivation or[…]
Read More »The Sunderland Echo featured this story on the updated Indices of Deprivation. The article highlights the local result in the employment deprivation domain: The report includes a table of the 20 worst-hit local authorities, which places Sunderland at number 13, with 18.5 per cent of working age adults in employment deprivation.
Read More »Produced by Open Data Communities, this dataset contains a range of measures which summarise the Indices of Deprivation 2015 at local authority district level. This dataset contains multidimensional statistical data (a data cube) which can be viewed as a spreadsheet cross-referencing two dimensions at a time. You can use the drop-down[…]
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Hertfordshire LIS (Local Information System) created this handy data visualisation to summarise the area profile with the release of the 2015 Indices. It’s a useful example of the different types of visualisation that can be used to explain the indices and illustrate findings:
Read More »In response to the UK PEEL assessment of 2014 (more information here) West Mercia police force issued a statement which summarised recent developments for the force and area trends. It also notes that 20 policing priority areas are prioritised by the force and have access to extra resources. These were selected using deprivation[…]
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http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/news/community/community-news/resort-still-ranked-with-most-deprived-1-7490256
Read More »This was brought to our attention by Jono Patterson (@JonoPatterson on Twitter). Shape files for Indices of Deprivation 2010 & 2015 merged with deciles. https://drive.google.com/a/ocsi.co.uk/folderview?id=0B1PItxn06mjhQ2UxZXkzazl1T2c&usp=sharing#
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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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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/10-worst-deprived-places-england-6548105
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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.
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UK Data Service Census Support have visualised the Indices of Deprivation 2015 using Google Fusion Tables.
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http://www.expressandstar.com/business/uk-money/2015/09/30/essex-seaside-village-jaywick-tops-englands-deprivation-league/
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http://www.heart.co.uk/essex/news/local/jaywick-most-deprived-area-in-england-again/#BVU2CIyygCGqVjoT.97
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http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Jaywick-named-deprived-area-England-new/story-27898071-detail/story.html
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This story in the Evening Standard has picked up on the fact that LSOAs in areas often thought of as affluent such as Chelsea and Kensington, as well as the headline’s West End, are among the 20 highest scoring places in the country for the Living Environment domain of the new[…]
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