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What do we mean by Deprivation?

Lincolnshire Research Observatory

30th September 2011

What do we mean by “deprivation”?



Deprivation:

• is the lack or denial of something that is considered to be a necessity

• can mean different things to different people, and in different circumstances





Deprivation:

• is not just about a lack of money

• consists of more than just poverty

• is unmet needs



Energy/Water Use

Noise

Waste / Recycling

Social / Community enterprises

Travel to Work/School

River Quality

Quality of Life and Deprivation

Traffic Volumes

Business Births/ Deaths

Community Well-being

Tenant Satisfaction

Corporate Environmental

Policies

Biodiversity

New homes built

Participation

Mortality by Cause

Benefit Recipients

Employment / Unemployment

Homelessness

Housing Quality

Crime & fear of crime

Qualifications

Air Pollution

Accessibility



Measuring DeprivationType Key Indicator for Lincolnshire

Income - Low income

Employment - Unemployment

- Worklessness

Health - Life expectancy

- Major diseases

Education - GCSE attainment

- Skills levels of resident workforce

Access - Access to GP/Grocery Store via public transport/on foot

- Access to a vehicle

- Affordable housing

Safety - Crime and the fear of crime

- Anti-Social Behaviour

Environment - Houses without central heating

- Hard to Heat Homes (fuel poverty)

- Air Quality

- Road Traffic Accidents



Education

EmploymentEnvironment

Crime & Safety

Accessibility

Health

Income

Mental Health

Informal Education

Victim of personal crime

Victim of personal or material crime



The Indices of Deprivation • The Indices of Deprivation in its current format

has been released in 2000, 2004, 2007 and 2010

• Produced by the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at Oxford University

• Commissioned by the Department for Communities & Local Government (DCLG)

• It is the official measure of deprivation in England



Indices of Deprivation – Underlying Indicator Types

Domain Indicator TypeIncome – income related benefitsEmployment – employment related benefitsHealth & Disability – rates of poor health, early mortality

and disabilityEducation, Skills & Training – children / young people

performance at school – skills levels of working age adults

Barriers to Housing & Services – housing

– access to servicesCrime – 4 major crime typesLiving environment – housing, air quality and RTAs

involving cyclists & pedestrians

22.5%22.5%

13.5%

13.5%

9.3%

9.3%

9.3%



IMD is a powerful tool• Data is provided at a very small

geographical level called Lower Super Output Area (LSOA)

• They have a minimum population of 1,000 and a mean population of 1500.

• There are 32,482 LSOAs in England



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Uses of IMD

• Targeting intervention

• 1% of all Gov’t Spending assigned using the IMD

• Lobbying and attracting funding



Do’s & Don’ts of using IMD

- Use it in isolation

Don’t: Do:- Use it with local knowledge and

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intelligence

- Use it as a direct measure of deprivation

- Use it as a relative measure of deprivation- Use it as a measure of affluence

- Use it as an interchangeable term for poverty






intelligence

- Use it as a direct measure of deprivation

- Use it as a relative measure of deprivation- Use it as a measure of affluence

- Use it as an interchangeable term for poverty

- Make comparisons between IMD scores or ranks from different years

- Remember that it is the people in an area that are deprived not the area itself

- Remember that it is a snapshot in time of the population in an area



Any questions?



Break Out Session Questions



• Why and how do you (or could you) use deprivation information in your area of work?

• How do you currently access information on deprivation?

• In terms of the deprivation data, written reports and interactive toolkits produced by the LRO, what is the most important or useful to you?

• What is the least important or useful to you?

• What prevents you from using deprivation intelligence effectively?

• How could this be solved?

Break Out Questions

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