Measuring Multiple Deprivation at the Small-Area Level
Top Cited Papers
- 1 January 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 38 (1), 169-185
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a37168
Abstract
Indices to measure deprivation at a small-area level have been used in the United Kingdom to target regeneration policy for over thirty years. The development of the Indices of Deprivation 2000 for England and comparable indices for Northern Ireland, Wales, and Scotland, involved a fundamental reappraisal and reconceptualisation of small-area level multiple deprivation and its measurement. Multiple deprivation is articulated as an accumulation of discrete dimensions or ‘domains’ of deprivation. This paper presents the key principles that were taken into consideration when constructing these four indices and the more recent English Indices of Deprivation 2004, and provides an account of the statistical techniques that were used to operationalise them.Keywords
This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
- Ward-Level Deprivation and Individual Social and Economic Outcomes in the British Household Panel StudyEnvironment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 2001
- There Goes the Neighbourhood Area policies and social exclusionNew Economy, 1999
- The Use of Indicators for Targeting Public Expenditure: The Index of Local DeprivationEnvironment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 1999
- Understanding PovertyPublished by Springer Science and Business Media LLC ,1997
- Resources, Deprivation, And PovertyPublished by Oxford University Press (OUP) ,1996
- Empirical Bayes Estimates of Age-Standardized Relative Risks for Use in Disease MappingBiometrics, 1987
- DeprivationJournal of Social Policy, 1987
- Poverty in the United KingdomPublished by University of California Press ,1979