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SCOTTISH INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION 2004: SUMMARY TECHNICAL REPORT

Appendix A: Data Sources

Department for Work and Pensions

Current Income Domain

  • Adults in Income Support households
  • Children in Income Support households
  • Adults in Income Based Job Seekers Allowance households
  • Children in Income Based Job Seekers Allowance households

Employment Domain

  • Incapacity Benefit recipients, men aged under 65 and women aged under 60
  • Severe Disablement Allowance recipients, men aged under 65 and women aged under 60
  • Compulsory New Deal participants - New Deal for the under 25s and New Deal for the 25+ not included in the unemployment claimant count

Education

  • Child Benefit : Used in 'Pupils aged 16+ who are not in full time education'

Inland Revenue

Current Income Domain

  • Adults in Working Families Tax Credit Households below a low income thresholds
  • Children in Working Families Tax Credit Households below a low income thresholds
  • Adults in Disability Tax Credit households below a low income thresholds
  • Children in Disability Tax Credit households below a low income thresholds

Information and Statistics Division, NHS Scotland

Health Domain

  • Comparative Mortality Factor (CMF)
  • Hospital episodes related to alcohol use
  • Hospital episodes related to drug use
  • Emergency admissions to hospital
  • Proportion of population being prescribed drugs for anxiety or depression or psychosis
  • Proportion of live singleton births of low birth weight (<2,500g)

Ordnance Survey

Geographic Access and Telecommunications

PointX data was supplied by Ordnance Survey. This product includes data licensed from PointX© Database Right/Copyright 2004 and Ordnance Survey© Crown Copyright 2004. All rights reserved. Licence number 100034829 and produced in whole or in part under licence from and based in whole or in part from copyright material of Thomson Directories Limited. It was used by the Executive to calculate drive times to 5 key services.

  • Drive time to GP
  • Drive time to supermarket
  • Drive time to petrol station
  • Drive time to primary school
  • Drive time to post office.

Office of National Statistics

  • Unemployment Claimant Count averaged over 12 months of those men aged under 65 and women aged under 60

Scottish Executive

Education

  • Secondary School level Absences

Scottish Qualifications Authority

Education

  • Pupil Performance at SQA at Stage 4

Universities and Colleges Admissions Service

Education

  • Proportions of the 17+ Population who have not successfully applied to HE.

General Register Office for Scotland

Education

  • Working Age Adults with no Qualifications

Health

  • Comparative Illness Factor (based on data for General Health and Limiting Long Term Illness)

Housing

  • Persons in households which are overcrowded
  • Persons in households without central heating

Population Denominator

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