Scottish Government

Measuring Deprivation in Scotland: Developing a Long-Term Strategy
Final Report

Nick Bailey, John Flint, Robina Goodlad,
Mark Shucksmith, Suzanne Fitzpatrick & Gwilym Pryce

Scottish Centre for Research on Social Justice,
Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen

Scottish Executive Central Statistics Unit

2003

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CONTENTS

Executive summary

1. Introduction
1.1 Aims and research process
1.2 Uses of deprivation measures
1.3 Structure of the report

2. Definitions and conceptual framework
2.1 Defining deprivation
2.2 Deprivation and poverty
2.3 Deprivation and social exclusion
2.4 Deprivation and social justice
2.5 Deprivation and social cohesion
2.6 Conclusions

3. Individual and area approaches
3.1 Individual measures
3.2 Area-based measures
3.3 Conceptual bases for individual and area approaches
3.4 Comparing results from the two measures
3.5 Conclusions

4. Scottish context
4.1 Geographical context
4.2 Cultural context
4.3 Conclusions

5. Developing area-based measures
5.1 Domains and indicators
5.2 Units for analysis
5.3 Domains versus social groups
5.4 Change over time
5.5 Updating the area-based measure
5.6 Other issues

6. Developing individual measures
6.1 Measuring individual deprivation
6.2 Measures for different social groups
6.3 Updating the individual measure

7. Relationships with other measures
7.1 Individual measures
7.2 Area-based measures
Table 7.1: Community Regeneration Statement monitoring indicators

8. Conclusions

References

Appendix 1: Record of consultations

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES

Table 3.1: Domains for individual and area approaches
Table 3.2: Summary of proposed domains
Table 7.1: Community Regeneration Statement monitoring indicators

ABBRE VIATIONS

FRS - Family Resources Survey.

PSE1999 - the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey 1999, conducted by a team led by Bristol University.

SHS - the Scottish Household Survey, a continuous survey commissioned by the Scottish Executive.

SIMD2003 - the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation, compiled by at team at Oxford University (Noble et al, 2003).