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Catherine DickieOffice of the Chief Statistician and Performance
Neighbourhood Stats Training Event, 1 March 2013
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Background to SIMD
• SIMD is a tool for identifying areas in Scotland suffering from multiple deprivation• to help target policies and resources at the places
with greatest need
• SIMD assumes that deprivation is not one-dimensional• it measures multiple aspects of deprivation
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How SIMD is constructed
• Seven domains are combined into a single indexEmployment
Income
Health
Education
Access to services
Crime
Housing
The Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation (SIMD)
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Ranking Scotland’s neighbourhoods
• Each datazone in Scotland gets a score on each domain and an overall score
• Then the datazones are ranked • from 1 (the most deprived)• to 6505 (the least deprived)
1 (most deprived) (least deprived) 6505
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Interpreting the rankings – 1
• SIMD identifies areas, not individuals
Not everyone who lives in a deprived area is deprived,
and not all deprived individuals live in deprived areas
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Interpreting the rankings – 2
• The SIMD rankings are relative, not absolute
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Which areas are most deprived?
• Since all the datazones have a deprivation rank, how can we identify the most deprived areas?
• we need to set a cut-off• different cut-offs can be used
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Which areas are most deprived?
• Quintiles split up Scotland’s datazones into 5 groups, each containing 20% of Scotland’s datazones
1 (most deprived) (least deprived) 6505
20% 20% 20% 20% 20%20% most deprived
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• Deciles split Scotland’s datazones into 10 groups, each containing 10% of Scotland’s datazones
10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10%10% 10% most deprived
Which areas are most deprived?
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20% most deprived
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Which areas are most deprived?
• Deciles split Scotland’s datazones into 10 groups, each containing 10% of Scotland’s datazones
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• Vigintiles split Scotland’s datazones into 20 groups, each containing 5% of Scotland’s datazones
5% 5%5%5%
5% most deprived
Which areas are most deprived?
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• Vigintiles split Scotland’s datazones into 20 groups, each containing 5% of Scotland’s datazones
Which areas are most deprived?
5%5%
15% most deprived
5% 5%
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Why does it help to know?
• To identify the most deprived areas in a neighbourhood• and see what kinds of deprivation they experience
• To inform policy• To support funding applications
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Activity: Exploring the SIMD map
• Think about your local area – what part would you say was the most deprived?• is it the most deprived according to SIMD?
• Type in your postcode in the search box to find:• your datazone• its SIMD 2012 rank
www.sns.gov.uk/Simd/Simd.aspx
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2• the intermediate zone• the domain ranks
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Browsing SIMD background data
• Download SIMD 2012 Data• Part 2 - SIMD 2012 Data
• Open
http://simd.scotland.gov.uk/publication-2012/3
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• Find the figures for Edinburgh City• the most deprived datazone in Edinburgh? its rank?• the least deprived datazone in Edinburgh? its rank?• any pockets of deprivation that you can spot?
Browsing SIMD background data
Handy Excel optionssort, filter, hide
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For your area
• Identify the datazones in your own area• eg, by using the ‘Intermediate Geography’ column
• Get a feel for the dataset• how many datazones• the range of SIMD ranks• how many datazones fall within your chosen cut-off• what percentage of datazones in your area fall
within the cut-off
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For your area
• Describe your area in relation to the city as a whole
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number of datazones
number of datazones in the …
percentage of datazones in the …
most deprived
decile
most deprived quintile
most deprived
decile
most deprived quintile
your area
Edinburgh City
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