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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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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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 »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 »I thought I’d do a summary of some different releases from HSCIC (Health and Social Care Information Centre) which gathers data from across the NHS. What’s notable is the breadth of different issues as the IMD is used to analyse relationships between health and deprivation across the board. ‘Maternity: Twice[…]
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This 2010 report (link here) on equality in the UK used Indices of Deprivation data (2007) to showcase differences in outcomes between people in the most and least deprived areas in the country. Here are some key findings: Analysis of Key Stage 4 results by the Income Deprivation Affecting Children[…]
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This 2006 report by DEFRA found inequalities in air quality based on IMD score for England, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with deprived areas in these countries having higher concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, particulate matter and sulphur dioxide. However it noted that for nitrogen dioxide and particulate matter the distribution was[…]
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This is a famous review of health inequalities published in 2010 and headed by Sir Michael Marmot. It found life expectancy, and in particular, healthy life expectancy correlates strongly with deprivation. The graph showing this inequality is sometimes called the ‘Marmot curve’: The review estimated the cost of health inequalities[…]
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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This report has some great examples of how the IMD can be used in public health reports to show area inequalities and highlight places of greatest need. It also has some excellent data visualisations. Click on the images to view in larger size. This neatly illustrates the different domains of the[…]
Read More »As cancer is the leading cause of death for most age groups in the country, health organisations and academics are obviously concerned about identifying health inequalities and potential causes among the population. There is a substantial body of research from different countries on this – a quick google scholar search[…]
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