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There are inequalities in health. For example, people living in more deprived areas tend to have shorter life expectancy. The following indicators are to monitor the effects of deprivation on health.
The indicators in this section were designed to provide a simple indicator of the characteristics of an area, and of the similarity between areas, for comparison or targeting purposes, and as a variable for analysis with other data and to provide a measure of deprivation at local level.
The number of people claiming key benefits (JSA, IB, SDA, IS) as a percentage of the population of working age. Please note that although people can claim more than one benefit, these data have been modified to count each person only once, therefore they are a measure of the number of people claiming...
Growing up in poverty damages children’s health and well-being, adversely affecting their future health and life chances as adults. Ensuring a good environment in childhood, especially early childhood, is important. A considerable body of evidence links adverse childhood circumstances to poor child health...
The number of people claiming council tax benefit as a percentage of the number of households.
A summary document providing the index of multiple deprivation scores by local authority with values for 2004, 2007 and 2010 for measures such as score, rank, extent, local concentration, income scale and employment scale.
The English Indices of Deprivation are the Government’s official relative measure of multiple deprivation in small areas across England called Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs).
The slope index of inequality (SII) in all cancer mortality for persons under 75 years. The SII gives a single score describing the extent of inequality in each Local Authority, and is broadly comparable between areas. See below for further details on
The percentage of low birth weight births by local authority and local deprivation quintile.
Mortality from all cancers, directly age-standardised rate, persons, under 75 years, 2004-08 (pooled) per 100,000 European Standard population by Local Authority by local deprivation quintile.