Catherine Dickie Office of the Chief Statistician and Performance

1. Catherine Dickie Office of the Chief Statistician and Performance Neighbourhood Stats Training Event, 1 March 2013

2. Background to SIMD • SIMD is a tool for identifying areas in Scotland suffering from multiple deprivation • to help target policies and resources at the places with greatest need • SIMD assumes that deprivation is not one-dimensional • it measures multiple aspects of deprivation

3. How SIMD is constructed • Seven domains are combined into a single index Employment Income The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) Health Education Access to services Crime Housing

4. Ranking Scotland’s neighbourhoods • Each datazone in Scotland gets a score on each domain and an overall score • Then the datazones are ranked • from 1 (the most deprived) • to 6505 (the least deprived) (least deprived) 6505 1 (most deprived)

5. Interpreting the rankings – 1 • SIMD identifies areas, not individuals Not everyone who lives in a deprived area is deprived, and not all deprived individuals live in deprived areas

6. Interpreting the rankings – 2 • The SIMD rankings are relative, not absolute 3rd 1st 2nd

7. Which areas are most deprived? • Since all the datazones have a deprivation rank, how can we identify the most deprived areas? • we need to set a cut-off • different cut-offs can be used

8. Which areas are most deprived? • Quintiles split up Scotland’s datazones into 5 groups, each containing 20% of Scotland’s datazones 20% most deprived 20% 20% 20% 20% 20% (least deprived) 6505 1 (most deprived)

9. Which areas are most deprived? • Decilessplit Scotland’s datazones into 10 groups, each containing 10% of Scotland’s datazones 10% most deprived 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10%

10. Which areas are most deprived? • Decilessplit Scotland’s datazones into 10 groups, each containing 10% of Scotland’s datazones 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 10% 20% most deprived

11. Which areas are most deprived? • Vigintiles split Scotland’s datazones into 20 groups, each containing 5% of Scotland’s datazones 5% 5% 5% 5% 5% most deprived

12. Which areas are most deprived? • Vigintiles split Scotland’s datazones into 20 groups, each containing 5% of Scotland’s datazones 5% 5% 5% 5% 15% most deprived

13. Why does it help to know? • To identify the most deprived areas in a neighbourhood • and see what kinds of deprivation they experience • To inform policy • To support funding applications

14. Activity: Exploring the SIMD map • Think about your local area – what part would you say was the most deprived? • is it the most deprived according to SIMD? • Type in your postcode in the search box to find: • your datazone • its SIMD 2012 rank www.sns.gov.uk/Simd/Simd.aspx 1 2 • the intermediate zone • the domain ranks

15. Browsing SIMD background data 3 • Download SIMD 2012 Data • Part 2 - SIMD 2012 Data • Open http://simd.scotland.gov.uk/publication-2012/

16. Browsing SIMD background data • Find the figures for Edinburgh City • the most deprived datazone in Edinburgh? its rank? • the least deprived datazone in Edinburgh? its rank? • any pockets of deprivation that you can spot? Handy Excel options sort, filter, hide

17. For your area 4 • Identify the datazones in your own area • eg, by using the ‘Intermediate Geography’ column • Get a feel for the dataset • how many datazones • the range of SIMD ranks • how many datazones fall within your chosen cut-off • what percentage of datazones in your area fall within the cut-off

18. For your area 5 • Describe your area in relation to the city as a whole