Slides from Session 2 - Updating the Indices of Multiple Deprivation

1. Updating the Indices of
Deprivation
DCLG Statistics User Engagement Day
25th November 2013
Baljit Gill and Sarah Ginder
Strategic Statistics Division, DCLG

2. Uses of the Indices
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Targeting funding or initiatives (national and local)
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Setting strategies e.g. Joint Strategic Needs Assessment
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Tracking the most deprived areas over time
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Assessing inequalities e.g. Slope Index of Inequality
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Estimating prevalence by place
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Informing communities

3. Plans for the update
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We will be updating the Indices, and have recently issued an
Invitation to Tender.
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Publication anticipated in 2015
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We will review existing deprivation indicators and methodology
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Review will commence in 2014 and will be informed by user
engagement
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This session provides an early opportunity to give views.
Feedback gathered today will feed into the review.

4. Plan for the session
Introduction
Background to the Indices
Plans for the update
15 mins
General questions
10 mins
Group sessions:
40 mins
Aspects of the Indices you would like to see:
•stay the same,
•be enhanced,
•changed.
Round up/what next
10 mins

5. What are the Indices of Deprivation?
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Measure relative deprivation
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At small area (LSOA) level
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Across seven different domains
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A combined Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)
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Last update was the English Indices of Deprivation 2010, based on data
from 2008
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Methodology devised for Indices of Deprivation 2000 has been (broadly)
followed in subsequent updates

6. INDOORS LIVING ENVIRONMENT:
Housing in poor condition (A)
Houses without central heating (B) *
OUTDOORS LIVING
ENVIRONMENT:
Air quality (C)
Road traffic accidents (D)
Recorded crime rates for the
following composite indicators:
Burglary (A)
Violence (B)
Theft (C)
Criminal damage (D)
GEOGRAPHICAL BARRIERS:
Road distance to a GP (A);
supermarket or convenience store (B);
primary school (C); Post Office (D)
WIDER BARRIERS:
Overcrowding (E) *
Housing affordability (F)
Homelessness (G)
Living
Environment
9.3%
Crime
9.3%
Income
22.5%
CHILDREN:
KS2 attainment (A)
KS3 attainment (B)
KS4 attainment (C)
Secondary school absence
(D)
Staying on in education (E)
Entry to higher education (F)
SKILLS:
Adult skills (G) *
Adults and children in Income Support
families (A)
Adults and children in income-based
Jobseeker’s Allowance families (B)
Adults and children in Pension Credit
(Guarantee) families (C)
Adults and children in certain
Child Tax Credit families (D)
Asylum seekers receiving subsistence/
accommodation support (E)
Supplementary Indices: Income
Deprivation Affecting Children and Older
People (IDACI & IDAOPI)
Barriers to
Housing and
Services 9.3%
Education,
Skills and
Training
13.5%
IMD 2010:
Domains & Indicators
Employment
22.5%
Health and
Disability
13.5%
Years of Potential Life Lost (A)
Comparative Illness and Disability Ratio
(B)
Acute morbidity (C)
Mood or anxiety disorders (D)
Claimants of Jobseeker’s Allowance (A)
Claimants of Incapacity Benefit (B)
Claimants of Severe Disablement
Allowance (C)
Claimants of Employment and Support
Allowance (D)
Participants in New Deal for under 25s
(E)
Participants in New Deal for 25 + (F)
Participants in New Deal for Lone
Parents (G)
* denotes Census data

7. Indicator criteria
Criteria for inclusion of indicators in Indices of Deprivation 2010:
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‘Domain specific’ and appropriate for the purpose
Measuring major features of that deprivation
Up-to-date
Capable of being updated at a regular basis
Statistically robust at the small area level, and
Available for the whole of England at a small-area level in a consistent
form

8. Attributes of the Indices
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Consistent, allowing comparisons with other areas
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Identify pockets of deprivation
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Flexible: users can focus on specific domains of deprivation
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Authoritative, independent and endorsed by Government
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Accessible to all, and permit scrutiny of decision making
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Allow speedy and efficient allocation of funding

9. Scope of the Review
The updated Indices will be based on the existing IMD model, retain
comparable domains and use the LSOA geography
Objectives:
a) Reviewing the indicators included in the ID 2010 to determine if
they remain fit for purpose and, where there is a clear rationale for
doing so, identifying potential changes to the basket of indicators in
each domain
b) Assessing the current data landscape, documenting changes to
(or out datedness of) previously used sources, as well as identifying
new sources
c) Reviewing whether the statistical methods used in the production of
the Indices of Deprivation 2010 are still justified and assessing if
alternative methods are available

10. Any questions?

11. Outputs and dissemination
Data:
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LSOA-level scores and ranks for:
• each domain;
• the overall Index of Multiple Deprivation;
• the two supplementary indices: IDACI and IDAOPI; and
• as many sub-domain and indicators as possible
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Summary measures at LA District and County level
Reports:
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Detailed technical report
Summary report

12. Useful mapping/visual tools
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Indices of Deprivation explorer (a tool for identifying neighbourhoods and
deprivation levels on a map):
http://dclgexamples.mywebcommunity.org/imd_demo_v7.htm
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Open Data Communities dashboard (to see LA-level IMD and domain summaries
pictorially): http://opendatacommunities.org/dashboard (select an LA, then click on
the ‘deprivation’ tab)
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Open Data Communities deprivation map (does a similar job to the Indices of
Deprivation explorer above): http://opendatacommunities.org/deprivation/map
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And there are others….

13. ODC mapping tool

14. ODC dashboard

15. Questions for group discussion
1. Which elements or attributes of the Indices of Deprivation 2010 would you like
to stay the same?
2. Are there any additional features you would like to see?
3. What would you like done differently?
Accessibility and Tools
4. What data formats and tools do you find helpful?
5. Is there anything you currently try and do with the Indices data that could be
made easier?

16. And finally…
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Thanks for coming!
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Opportunity to leave further feedback today at statistics stall
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We’ll be in touch in the new year to inform you of plans/developments
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Let us know if you would like to be added to our list of users – email:
indices.deprivation@communities.gsi.gov.uk