'My ward is more deprived than yours'

Abstract

Measures of deprivation are closely correlated one with another. However, by judicious choice of the deprivation measure used a ward can achieve a marked change in rank order. This may exert considerable influence on the decisions made by government departments, local authorities and health authorities when allocating resources.

Identifying Change Over Time in Small Area Socio-Economic Deprivation

“…It is questionable whether other schemes, such as the Jarman UPA index, should be calculated over time since the input variables are more likely to vary in meaning over time (particularly the original use of country of birth of head of household as a proxy for ethnicity) and the applicability of the differential weights applied to each variable. In any case, despite a strong relationship in 1991 with the Townsend index (Mackenzie et al, 1998), the applicability of the Jarman index as a deprivation measure has been questioned (Senior, 1991).…”

“…< Table 6 about here > Deprivation has previously been shown to vary across area types (Bradford et al, 1995;Martin et al, 2000;Sloggett and Joshi, 1998;Congdon, 1994) (Mackenzie et al, 1998;Wardle et al, 2002) although there may be less necessity for a car in urban than rural areas (Watt et al, 1994) rates of non-home ownership change very little, but in Mining & Manufacturing, the differences are more marked. In London, though there are a large differences in rates between quintiles 4 and 5 and over the decade, rates of non-home ownership increase in the middle deprived quintiles 2 to 4.…”

“…In Prospering UK, there was a small decline in all deprivation quintiles but The purpose here is not to provide a critical evaluation of the choice of index (as in Mackenzie et al, 1998) or to assess the success of Plymouth's SRB projects but to use these situations to provide a context. (Figure 12b).…”

“…Choice of which index to use is subject to debate (Mackenzie et al, 1998;Davey Smith et al, 2001) but a high degree of correlation between schemes is found (Morris and Carstairs, 1991;Hoare, 2003).…”

Deprivation and childhood obesity: a cross sectional study of 20 973 children in Plymouth, United Kingdom

“…11-18 Plymouth, a relatively deprived part of the UK (ranked 338 of 366 local authorities on the Department of Environment's Index of Local Conditions),19 also has considerable socioeconomic variations within the city by virtue of having some of the most deprived and affluent electoral wards nationally 20. It therefore provides an ideal setting for studying the association between deprivation and obesity.…”