SIMD 2012 Catherine Dickie Office of the Chief Statistician and Performance Neighbourhood Stats Training Event, 1 March 2013

SIMD 2012 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

SIMD 2012 How SIMD is constructed Seven domains are combined into a single index Employment Income Health Education Access to services Crime Housing The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD)

SIMD 2012 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

SIMD 2012 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

SIMD 2012 Interpreting the rankings – 2 The SIMD rankings are relative, not absolute 1st 2nd 3rd

SIMD 2012 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

SIMD 2012 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) % 20% most deprived

SIMD 2012 Deciles split Scotland’s datazones into 10 groups, each containing 10% of Scotland’s datazones 10% 10% most deprived Which areas are most deprived?

SIMD % 20% most deprived 10% Which areas are most deprived? Deciles split Scotland’s datazones into 10 groups, each containing 10% of Scotland’s datazones

SIMD 2012 Vigintiles split Scotland’s datazones into 20 groups, each containing 5% of Scotland’s datazones 5% 5% most deprived Which areas are most deprived?

SIMD 2012 Vigintiles split Scotland’s datazones into 20 groups, each containing 5% of Scotland’s datazones Which areas are most deprived? 5% 15% most deprived 5%

SIMD 2012 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

SIMD 2012 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 the intermediate zone the domain ranks

SIMD 2012 Browsing SIMD background data Download SIMD 2012 Data Part 2 - SIMD 2012 Data Open 3

SIMD 2012 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 options sort, filter, hide

SIMD 2012 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 4

SIMD 2012 For your area Describe your area in relation to the city as a whole 5 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