Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 is the Scottish Government’s official tool for identifying concentrations of deprivation in Scotland. SIMD20 is the Scottish Government’s sixth edition since 2004. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) combines seven different domains (aspects) of deprivation: income; employment; health; education, skills and training; geographic access to services; crime; and housing. These domains are measured using a number of indicators to form ranks for each domain. Data zones are ranked from 1 being most deprived to 6,976 being least deprived. Each of the seven domain ranks are then combined to form the overall SIMD. This provides a measure of relative deprivation at data zone level, so it tells you that one data zone is relatively more deprived than another but not how much more deprived.
 
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(2020) . Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020. Scottish Government https://services.mspdata.eu:/geonetwork/srv/api/records/02866b0b-66e5-46ab-9b1c-d433dc3c2fae

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Date ( Publication )
2020-01-28
Date ( Revision )
2020-04-27
Identifier
www.gov.scot / SG_SIMD_2020
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Population distribution — demography
Keywords
  • Area deprivation
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The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
Other constraints
Dataset is complete for Scotland. Care should be taken when using this dataset with lookups to other postcode based geographies. Some postcode unit boundaries will have changed since data zones were created therefore exact match of the boundaries are unlikely.
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Denominator
10000
Metadata language
eng English
Topic category
  • Society
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Date ( Publication )
2007-12-13

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http://www.gov.scot/simd
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
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  • WMS (1.3.0 )

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Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020  

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Scottish_Index_of_Multiple_Deprivation_2020  

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Population Distribution and Demography  

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Statement
The methodology used to construct the SIMD is based on the approach developed by Oxford University for the Scottish Indices of Deprivation in 2003. Since that publication, the Scottish Government have published indices of multiple deprivation in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2020. Full details of the methodology used to construct the SIMD 2020 are available in the technical notes (https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-index-of-multiple-deprivation-2020/).

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02866b0b-66e5-46ab-9b1c-d433dc3c2fae   XML
Metadata language
eng English
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dataset Dataset
Date stamp
2020-05-07
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0

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