| 05/12/11 | Analysis of local areas by SIMD deprivation This new paper uses the SIMD to compare indicators of income, employment, health, crime etc. between the most and least deprived parts of a local area. Fife Council area is used as an example but the paper provides guidance outlining how the analysis can be re-created for any chosen area. |
| 04/11/11 | SIMD consultation - responses and actions Based on responses to the recent SIMD consultation we have decided that the next full update to the SIMD will be published in November 2012. We have published a full summary of responses to the consultation along with actions planned by OCS. |
27/10/11 | Thesecond set of annual updates to the income and employment domainhas been published. |
03/10/11 | SIMD consultation now closed We recently consulted with users of the SIMD on the best timing for the next update and on the priority which we should place on a number of other possible SIMD related outputs. The consultation is now closed. We will publish a summary of responses and details of our resulting plans in due course. We always welcome your views and you can still get in touch via the details on the contacts page. |
| 30/09/11 | Revisions to the first annual update of the income domain The first annual update to the income domain has been revised to ensure the best possible comparability with previous and future versions of the domain. The revision does not affect the annual updates to the employment domain and does not affect SIMD 2009. More details can be found here: www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/AnnualUpdates |
| 12/08/11 | Guidance on different ways to analyse the SIMD Analysis of the SIMD often focuses on the 15% most deprived datazones in Scotland but this is not always appropriate. This new paper provides step-by-step guidance on how to perform a number of alternative types of analysis. A number of spreadsheets, allowing the user to generate some of the charts often used when analysing SIMD are also now available via the link above. |
| 04/07/11 | SIMD consultation launched We are currently consulting users of the SIMD on the best timing for the next update and on the priority which we should place on a number of other possible SIMD related outputs. We would really value your comments, please complete the template in the consultation document by 30 September 2011.
|
| 16/06/11 | Analysis identifying deprived rural areas published A paper and associated spreadsheet identifying the most income, employment and access deprived rural datazones in Scotland have been published. |
| 04/04/11 | SIMD results for new Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies New Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies will be used for the elections on 5th May. The interactive mapping has been updated to include details of these new 2011 Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies. The existing SIMD analysis by Scottish Parliamentary Constituency has been repeated for the new 2011 Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies. |
| 15/03/11 | Further analysis and guidance published Two papers have been published analysing change over time in SIMD. The first paper considers how concentrations of deprived people in the most deprived areas have changed - for example, are the most deprived areas improving more than the less deprived areas? The second paper looks at the areas which have gained datazones in the 15% most deprived during the same period that the number in Glasgow has fallen. It considers whether the changes have been real (absolute) or relative. Both papers also provide guidance on the best ways of performing this sort of analysis and why alternative methods may not be appropriate. |
| 02/03/11 | New interactive guidance now available We have published the first in a planned series of interactive guidance documents. This powerpoint slideshow uses screenshots and animation to show how to find the SIMD rank of an area using the interactive mapping. We'd like to hear your thoughts on whether this guidance is useful and, in particular, are there any other SIMD subjects that we could usefully cover with similar guidance? Please let us know by contacting us. |
| 11/02/11 | Further information on the quality of the SIMD added to website We have expanded and improved the information about the quality of the overall SIMD (accuracy, relevance etc.) contained in the Data Sources and Suitability section of our website. |
| 26/01/11 | Minor error affecting some of the less deprived datazones in the employment domain annual update DWP have found that the data they provided for a small number of datazones (37) in the employment domain annual update is incorrect. This in turn has had an impact upon the domain ranks for these datazones and a number of other surrounding datazones. The error only affects the background data for the employment domain annual update - the statistical bulletin itself is not affected and neither is SIMD 2009. All of the datazones which have been affected are in deciles 9 and 10 and so any analysis of the most deprived datazones remains valid. The incorrect figures have now been replaced and the revised figures can be found here: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/AnnualUpdates We apologise for this error and for any inconvenience caused by it. |
| 09/12/10 | More tools developed to help users explore the SIMD data Three SIMD tools have been developed to help users explore the SIMD data in more detail. These are found under "Tools" on the Background Data and Tools page:
- Datazone Lookup - contains two tools to match geographies with SIMD ranks, populations and deprivation counts and percentages.
- Datazone Profiler - build up a quick picture of an area by displaying summary information for a selected datazone.
- Interactive Table - user-defined comparisons between geographies, ranks, quintiles, deciles and vigintiles on every domain (macros must be enabled on opening file)
|
08/12/10
| The UK Statistics Authority maintains the SIMD's designation as a National Statistic Under the provisions of the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007, the UK Statistics Authority has a statutory duty to assess sets of statistics for compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, to determine whether it is appropriate for the statistics to be designated, or to retain their designation, as National Statistics.
Through 2010, the UK Statistics Authority assessed the SIMD as a National Statistic. On 2 Dec 2010, they published a report which deemed it appropriate for the SIMD to retain its National Statistics status (subject to two minor amendments). The full report can be found through the UK Statistics Authority's website: http://www.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/assessment/assessment/assessment-reports/assessment-report-70---scottish-index-of-multiple-deprivation.pdf |
| 24/11/10 | Guidance on performing analysis over time A paper has been published which provides guidance on how analysis of SIMD over time can be performed. It provides a series of examples, using Glasgow and North Ayrshire as case studies, which can be used to perform similar analysis for other areas. |
| 06/10/10 | Small Area Statistics ScotStat Event: Presentation Slides and Feedback The Small Area Statistics branch of the Office of the Chief Statistician recently held a one day Scotstat event on Tuesday 05 October 2010. Presentation slides and feedback from this event can be found through the Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics Forum. |
| 04/10/10 | Annual Updates to the SIMD Income and Employment Domainshave been published. |
| 21/09/10 | TheDatazones to NHS health boards or local authorities (SIMD 2006 and 2009 V2)lookups have been updated. These files match datazones to health board or local authority level quintiles and deciles. |
| 06/09/10 | The following analysis has now been updated and published on the website: Analysis using maps - showing the datazones remaining in the 15%, those moving in and those moving out between SIMD 2006 and SIMD 2009 for each local authority. Analysis of house price data - showing the relationship between house prices and deprivation according to SIMD 2009. The SIMD revision timetable has been amended to show this. |
| 24/08/10 | The SIMD 2009 General Report has now been updated and published in both HTML and PDF format. The SIMD revision timetable has been amended to show this. |
| 20/08/10 | The SIMD 2009 General Report has now been updated and published in a PDF format. An HTML version will follow shortly. The SIMD revision timetable has been amended to show this. |
| 19/08/10 | Identifying Fragile Rura Areas paper published as part of the Socio-Economic briefing on Rural Scotland This paper draws on Highlands and Islands Enterprise's Fragile Areas Review to look at whether fragile rural areas could be identified by using SIMD methodology. It considers the creation of a population domain which could then be combined with some of the existing SIMD 2009 domains. |
| 17/08/10 | Small Area Statistics Event, Tuesday 05 October 2010 The Small Area Statistics branch of the Office of the Chief Statistician are hosting a one day Scotstat event on Tuesday 05 October 2010. For more information and to register for the event, please see the event bulletin. |
| 17/08/10 | TheStatistical Compendium part 3 (Analysis by SPC)has now been updated and published. The tables in this Statistical Compendium show: - the shares of the 5, 10, 15 and 20% most deprived in the overall SIMD 2009 by SPC,
- counts of the number of individuals considered to be income or employment deprived by SPC,
- population changes between updates of the SIMD by SPC.
The SIMD revision timetable has been amended to show the completion of these tables. |
| 12/08/10 | The remaining tables from theStatistical Compendium part 1 (Overall SIMD)have now been updated and published. These tables show: - the levels of income deprivation in the 15% most deprived datazones by local authority,
- the percentage of the population living in the most deprived datazones who are income deprived and,
- the percentage of income deprived people in the 15% most deprived datazones by Urban Rural Classification (2008).
The SIMD revision timetable has been amended to show the completion of these tables. |
| 05/08/10 | Analysis of Concentrations of Deprivation paper updated This paper develops on the analysis in the SIMD 2009 General Report to explore what has happened to small area concentrations of multiple deprivation over time and has been updated following the revision to the Income Domain of the SIMD 2009. The SIMD revision timetable has been amended to show the completion of this paper. |
| 29/07/10 | Interactive Mapping Tool back online The Interactive Mapping Tool is back online. Changes have been made to the Interactive Mapping to reflect the recent revisions to the SIMD 2009 (see News section, 20/07/10). Interactive mapping may be slow to load. This should be fixed by Friday 6 August. |
| 22/07/10 | SIMD 2009 Postcode lookups and revision timetable now available Revised postcode lookup files for local authorities, the 15% most deprived areas and the whole of Scotland have now been published in the SIMD Postcode Lookup section of the SIMD website.
We have also published a timetable outlining when we plan to update the remainder of the website. |
| |
| 20/07/10 | SIMD 2009 Income Domain Revision
When providing Scottish Government with tax credit data for use in SIMD 2009, HMRC mistakenly included adults and children in benefit households who also receive money through the tax credit system, resulting in some double counting of income deprived people. This affected the income domain and the overall SIMD 2009. Update (20/12/10) What assurances are there in future that the data received from HMRC will be accurate? HMRC will spend more time from the outset in defining populations in agreement with customers. A second level of quality assurance checks are also in place. The income domain and the overall SIMD 2009 were corrected and the opportunity was taken to update the SIMD 2009 income domain further. The income domain of SIMD 2009 and the overall SIMD 2009 ranks were revised to give SIMD 2009 Version 2. The rest of the SIMD 2009 and previous versions of the index are unaffected. Three papers have been published providing: These can be found through the Publications section of the SIMD website.
Furthermore, various datasets have been updated for the overall SIMD 2009 and the 2009 income domain to reflect the revisions made as listed below: We are planning to have the revised data on Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics (SNS) on Thursday 22 July 2010. We are working to update the remainder of the website as soon as possible. The timetable for this will be added to the website shortly. |
| 09/07/10 | SIMD 2009: INCOME DOMAIN - NOTIFICATION OF ERROR IN TAX CREDIT DATA When providing Scottish Government with tax credit data for use in SIMD 2009, HMRC mistakenly included adults and children in benefit households who also receive money through the tax credit system, resulting in some double counting of income deprived people. This affects the income domain and the overall SIMD 2009. Update (20/12/10) What assurances are there in future that the data received from HMRC will be accurate? HMRC will spend more time from the outset in defining populations in agreement with customers. A second level of quality assurance checks are also in place. The counts of people who are income deprived excluding tax credits used in SIMD 2009 is correct and the other domains of SIMD 2009 are not affected. SIMD 2004 and SIMD 2006 are completely unaffected. A note has been sent to ScotStat registered users which provides details of the cause and impact of the error and outlines the steps we will be taking to revise the data. This note can be accessed here. Affected content has been removed from the SIMD website. We are aiming to have corrected background data spreadsheets and analysis of the impact of the correction on the website by 21st July. The planned timetable for amendments to the remainder of the website will be added to the website. If there are particular parts of the website which you would like us to prioritise then please let us know. We apologise for any inconvenience this error may cause. If you have any further questions then please get in touch via email (neighbourhood.statistics@scotland.gsi.gov.uk) or phone us on any of the numbers provided below and the team will be happy to answer them. Matt Perkins - 0131 244 0443 Andrew White - 0131 244 7714 Jeremy Chan - 0131 244 3331 |
| 30/06/10 | A misprint has been identified in Table 2.1 and Paragraph 2.17 of the SIMD 2009 General Report. These have been amended with the correct figures. The number of income deprived people in the 15% most income deprived areas should have read 317,535 (42%) and the corresponding figure for the Rest of Scotland should have read 561,575 (13%). |
| 20/05/10 | The indicators used in SIMD are now available through the Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics website ( www.sns.gov.uk). They can be found (for datazones only) in the following areas using the advanced reporter: - Income domain - Economic Activity, Benefits and Tax Credits - Combination of Key Benefits
- Employment domain - Economic Activity, Benefits and Tax Credits - Combination of Key Benefits
- Health domain - Health - SIMD Health Domain
- Education, Skills & Training domain - SIMD Education Domain
- Access domain - Access to Services
- Crime domain - Crime and Justice
- Housing - SIMD Housing Domain
Note that they are also available through the Data and Analysis page of this website as usual. |
| 20/05/10 | The SIMD Quick Lookup has been updated (and renamed) to include two further Datazone Lookup Tools: Datazone Search and Datazone Profile. Use Datazone Search to match a list of datazones to higher level geographies, overall SIMD and domain ranks, vigintiles, and the 15% most deprived. Build up a quick picture of a datazone with Datazone Profile - simply identify its datazone number and enter it into the yellow box to find geographical information, SIMD domain ranks, and population and deprivation figures. |
| 30/04/10 | An SIMD Quick Lookup file has been added to the Data and Analysis section under the Lookup Tables section (on the right of the Data and Analysis page). For all updates of the SIMD, this file matches datazones to higher level geographies, overall SIMD and domain ranks, vigintiles, and the 15% most deprived. |
| 21/04/10 | The background data for the SIMD 2009 health domain and the SIMD 2006 health domain has been updated with a text and visual interpretation of the standardised ratios used in the values of some health domain indicators: - standardised mortality ratio
- hospital episodes related to alcohol use
- hospital episodes related to drug use
- emergency admissions to hospital
|
| 12/04/10 | Last year OCS consulted users on the range of outputs they would like to see published in SIMD 2009. A summary of responses to this consultation and of action taken or planned by OCS has now been published: /Topics/Statistics/SIMD/consultationresponse |
26/03/10 | SIMD 2009: Correction to numbers employment deprived Unfortunately we have identified an error in some of the additional background material we published showing the number of employment deprived people. The correct figures were used in all of the calculations for the SIMD itself, so I would stress that the error does not affect the SIMD overall ranks, or the ranks for the employment domain. Nor does it affect the data published showing the percentage of the working age population who are employment deprived at datazone level. All parts of the website now show the correct figures. Further details can be found in the letter sent to registered Scotstat users: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/Erratum2009ScotStat |
| 22/03/10 | Supplementary health indicator ranks have been added alongside the background data for the health domain in SIMD 2009. This lookup file contains datazone ranks for the individual indicators that make up the health domain for each update of the SIMD. It should be used in conjunction with the full background data for the health domain. |
| 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. |