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SCOTTISH INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION 2004: TECHNICAL REPORT
Aim
The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2004 was published on 14 th June 2004 through a summary technical report 1. In addition, the Scottish Executive published the underlying data 2 and presented the results via an interactive website 3. The aim of this report is therefore not to comment further on the results but to complement these publications by providing the reader with more detailed information on the construction of the underlying indicators and the technical methodology used to develop the SIMD 2004.
The SIMD 2004 was produced in-house by the Office of the Chief Statistician and was based on the methodology used by the Social Disadvantage Research Centre (SDRC) at Oxford University to create the Scottish Indices of Deprivation (SID) 2003 4. This report therefore concentrates on describing the processes involved, from data collection to the construction of the overall SIMD scores with references to the SDRC work and other literature where necessary. Due to the nature of this report, there will be some duplication with previous SDRC reports 5 on the subject. In addition this report concerns the construction of the SIMD 2004 and is not intended to focus on progress against the recommendations of the Executive's long-term strategy for measuring deprivation 6.
The report begins with a section on the background to the Index, dealing with its conceptualisation and a broad overview of the domains involved. It moves on to a discussion of the geographic unit and then provides a chapter of detailed information on each domain and indicator and the techniques used to construct them. The final chapter describes how these domains are combined to produce the overall SIMD 2004. This information supports the Summary Technical Report by describing the construction of the SIMD 2004 in greater depth.
Office of the Chief Statistician
October 2004
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