| 03/03/10 | A minor change has been made to an indicator in the SIMD 2009 education domain. The word "not" has been dropped from the "17-21 year olds not enrolling in to higher education" indicator to remain consistent with SIMD 2006. The SIMD 2009 education domain background data and the SIMD 2009 technical report have been updated to reflect this change. Please note in particular that the indicator values in the SIMD 2009 education domain background data will have changed. This does not affect the calculation of the overall index, just how the indicator values are displayed. |
| 04/02/10 | A new look-up table has been added to the Data and Analysis section of the website. Datazones to NHS health boards or local authorities (SIMD 2006 and 2009) matches datazones to geography level quintiles and deciles. |
| 06/01/10 | Erratum - General Report, Annex D: Datazones in the 15% most deprived on the overall SIMD by Health Board and Community Health Partnership We have been made aware of a misprint in the table of Annex D within the General Report for SIMD 2009 leading to a few incorrect figures. A corrected version can now be viewed by clicking here. |
| 18/12/09 | Below is a copy of the recent email sent around the ScotStat user forum: "Over the past few weeks, following publication, we've made changes to and added further information to the SIMD website. "We've made some amendments to the background data; we corrected an error with one of the education indicators (this only affected the spreadsheet, not the calculation of the SIMD). We've also added income domain data excluding tax credits to the income sheet to enable users to evaluate the impact of using tax credit data. It is recommended that you work with the latest versions of the background data files should you need to. "Some users requested a list of the crime codes used to calculate the SIMD 2009 crime domain to save them from having to refer to the SIMD 2006 Technical Report. A list has now been added into the SIMD 2009 Technical Report, Annex B. Geography level quintile and decile files have been added to the Data and Analysis section. These convert datazones to higher level geographies and match them to local quintiles and deciles. "Local authority postcode lookup files have been revised to exclude duplicate postcodes. If you downloaded these to use locally, we would recommend that you download again the latest versions though there will be minimal impact on your analyses as a result of these changes. "The new look interactive SIMD mapping website has been live for 6 weeks now and we've received some positive feedback. If anyone has any comments, feel free to let us know. In case you missed it at the time of publication, the SIMD 2009 Analysis section has a number of spreadsheets showing the 5/10/15/20% most deprived datazones by local authority and Scottish parliamentary constituency. There are also Excel versions of the tables used in the SIMD 2009 General Report." |
| 29/10/09 | Scotland's Chief Statistician released the latest update to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) today. The SIMD website has been updated with the latest statistics. Click here for the SIMD 2009: General Report. Explore the full results with the new interactive mapping tool. Click here. A presentation on the SIMD 2009 can be found by clicking here. |
| 07/10/09 | A summary of the changes made to the indicators to be used in SIMD 2009 is now available by clicking here. |
| 08/06/09 | OCS are currently consulting users on the range of outputs they would like to see published as part of SIMD 2009. If you have any suggestions or comments please respond by 26 June 2009. |
| 25/03/08 | The planning cycle for updating the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation in 2009 provides an opportunity to review the SIMD website. The Scottish Government are keen to seek the opinions of users of the website to scope possible developments to the 'look and feel' of the existing site. A blog has been created on the SNS User Group website and we would be grateful for any comments. |
28/06/07 | A Frequently Asked Questions page about the use and analysis of the SIMD have been added to the website. If you do not find an answer to your question here, please contact us at neighbourhood.statistics@scotland.gsi.gov.uk |
10/01/07 | SIMD 2006 change maps for each local authority, showing which areas have moved into, out from, or remained in the 15% most deprived between the SIMD 2004 and SIMD 2006 are now available within the Data and Analysis section of the website. |
17/10/06 | The SIMD 2006 was published today. The associated statistical and ministerial news releases are available at www.scotland.gov.uk/simd2006news. The SIMD 2006 is an update to the SIMD 2004 and includes, for the first time, a crime domain and public-transport sub-domain. The use of a stable geography (the data zone) allows analysis of relative change in deprived areas over time. Alongside the General Report, which includes an initial analysis of the SIMD 2006 and change since SIMD 2004, the Scottish Executive have also published a Guidance Leaflet, Technical Report and background data. |
03/11/05 | The Scottish Government's Long Term Strategy for Measuring Deprivation included a commitment to evaluate the statistical techniques used in SIMD 2004. On 3 November 2005, the Scottish Government released an evaluation of the statistical techniques in the SIMD 2004, conducted by the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics (RCB), University of Glasgow. The report can be found at www.scotland.gov.uk/simd2004evaluation and a statistical publication notice, containing the Scottish Government's official response can be found at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/11/statspubnoticevalsimd2004 |
19/07/05 | A minor revision was made to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2004 on 19 July 2005. Further details of the revision can be found in a statistical publication notice at: www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2005/07/simd2004revisionjuly05. The interactive maps and background data now contain the revised SIMD 2004. |