An index of neighbourhood advantage from English postcode data
Screenshot from http://dclgapps.communities.gov.uk/imd/idmap.html Densely packed postcodes appear grey: you need to expand the map to see colours --> The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has a website which provides an ‘index of multiple deprivation’ for every postcode in England. This is a composite index based on typical income, employment, education, health, crime, housing and living environment for each of 32,844 postcodes in 2015. You can also extract indices for the component factors that contribute to the index, which are explained further here . And there is a fascinating interactive website where you can explore the indices on a map of England. Researchers have used the index of multiple deprivation as an overall measure of environmental factors that might affect child development, but it has one major drawback. The number that the website gives you is a rank from 1 to 32,844. This means it is not normally distributed, and not easy to interpret. Y...