Title

WIMD Indicator Data - LSOA

Last update

25 May 2016 25 May 2016

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

Designation

National Statistics

Lowest level of geographical disaggregation

Lower-layer super output areas

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

General description

WIMD is the Welsh Government’s official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in Wales. It is designed to identify those small areas where there are the highest concentrations of several different types of deprivation. As such, WIMD is a measure of multiple deprivation that is both an area-based measure and a measure of relative deprivation.

WIMD ranks all small areas in Wales from 1 (most deprived) to 1,909 (least deprived).

The Index has three main components:
- The Index itself, which is a set of ranks;
- The ranks of the eight types of deprivation, or domains, from which the overall Index is constructed;
- The underlying indicators, which are directly measurable, and which are combined to create the domain ranks. Many, but not all, of the indicators are produced as rates. The units depend on what is being measured.

All of these components are calculated for each of the LSOAs in Wales. The overall 2014 WIMD ranks and the ranks of the eight domains of deprivation are published on the StatsWales website. Where available, the underlying indicator data is now published annually on StatsWales.

The overall methodology used within WIMD 2014 is the same as used for WIMD 2011. The domains have also stayed the same. There have been a small number of changes to individual indicators (or the inclusion of new indicators) within the Education, Access to Services, Community Safety, Income and Physical Environment and Housing domains; as well as some technical changes to some of the individual domains. Further information is provided in the WIMD 2014 Publication and WIMD 2014 Technical Report.

Data collection and calculation

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Data reference periods

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Users, uses and context

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Rounding applied

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Revisions information

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) discovered an error in the income indicator data they had provided for the income domain of WIMD which relates to the accidental exclusion of some data on tax credits. The 2014 income indicator data feeds through to the Income domain ranks, and overall WIMD 2014 ranks. This data was revised on the 12th August 2015.

The fire and violent crime indicators revised on 02/02/2015, as the original values were scaled wrongly (mistakenly multiplied by 100). This revision does not affect the Overall Index or the Community Safety domain or any of the WIMD dissemination products.

Statistical quality

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Weblinks

Website http://gov.wales/wimd
Full report http://wales.gov.uk/docs/statistics/2014/141126-wimd-2014-en.pdf
Technical report http://wales.gov.uk/docs/statistics/2014/141218-wimd-2014-technical-en.pdf

Keywords

WIMD 2014; Multiple Deprivation; Deprivation; Social Inclusion; Indicators; LSOA; Income; Employment; Health; Education; Community Safety; Housing; Physical Environment; Access to Services

Name

WIMD0004