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Help us improve data signposting for local areas

November 11th, 2011

Data4nr (www.data4nr.net) is a well-used, trusted and freely-available source to help users find data & information to support targeting, monitoring, priority setting and performance management at local level. Data4nr also underpins national services such as Data.gov.uk and the academic data liaison service.
We are surveying Data4nr users to find out which parts of the service provide [...]

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Visualising the Indices of Deprivation 2010

March 29th, 2011

We’ve been keeping a set of links for Indices of Deprivation visualisations and analysis. Get in touch if you know of any more.
Visuals:

Guardian map at Super Output Area level: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/indices-multiple-deprivation-poverty-england#zoomed-picture
Maps of England from Alasdair Rae, including cartograms: http://undertheraedar.blogspot.com/2011/03/indices-of-deprivation-2010.html
Coventry: http://ias.facts-about-coventry.com/IAS/dataviews/report/fullpage?viewId=236&reportId=234&geoId=7&geoSubsetId=199&geoReportId=7774
Cornwall: www.cornwall.gov.uk/deprivationmap
Nottingham: http://www.nottinghaminsight.org.uk/IAS/dataviews/report?reportId=383&viewId=992&geoReportId=26806&geoId=5&geoSubsetId=
Change over time in London: http://spatial.ly/eEGcEO

Comments:

Guardian DataBlog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/mar/29/indices-multiple-deprivation-poverty-england
OCSI: http://www.ocsi.co.uk/news/2011/03/24/headline-results-from-the-indices-of-deprivation-2010/ and http://www.ocsi.co.uk/news/2011/03/24/why-the-imd-is-still-important-in-the-open-data-age/
Centre for Cities: http://centreforcities.typepad.com/centre_for_cities/2011/03/the-index-of-multiple-deprivation.html
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Indices of Deprivation 2010 launched

March 24th, 2011

The government Indices of Deprivation were published earlier today, including the overview Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010 (IMD2010). Commissioned by CLG from the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at Oxford University, these are an update of the previous 2007 and 2004 datasets.
The full datasets and technical report are available at http://www.communities.gov.uk/communities/research/indicesdeprivation/deprivation10/.
We’ve been hard at work providing [...]

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Local Economic Monitor helps understand local-level economic trends and drivers

July 28th, 2009

Public organisations increasingly need to understand local-level economic trends and drivers. To address this need, OCSI in partnership with GeoWise have developed the Local Economic Monitor (www.local-economic-monitor.org) to:

monitor key economic indicators for all English local authorities, showing the impact of recent trends;

visualise time series data, including change over recent periods;

present fully updated datasets, showing the [...]

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Model-Based Estimates of Deprivation for Output Areas, 2004

February 19th, 2009

Methodology
For information on the methodology we used, please see the Technical report.
Datasets
Follow the links below to download the deprivation datasets modeled to Output Area level. Files are in zipped Excel format, and may take some time to download on slow connections.
All Areas (This text file contains all data for Output Areas in England. Users with [...]

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Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration (Data4nr) tool

October 15th, 2008

The Data for Neighbourhoods and Regeneration (Data4nr) tool - www.data4nr.net - has been updated and extended. Commissioned from OCSI by the Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG), Data4nr identifies and signposts the datasets available for targeting, monitoring, priority setting and performance management at a neighbourhood level.
This update is part of the development being carried out [...]

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Supporting neighbourhood-level targeting for Local Area Agreements

August 19th, 2008

The Local Area Agreements agenda critically requires local partners to effectively assess and monitor the impacts of partnership programmes across their areas. The Department for Communities and Local Government commissioned OCSI to examine indicators for target setting and performance assessment at neighbourhood level, in the context of the data needs emerging from the LAA process. [...]

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OCSI data tool supports equalities and diversity work

August 1st, 2008

OCSI have produced a comprehensive mapping of socio-economic data across the South-East for the six core equality groups - gender, age, ethnicity, disability, faith, and sexual orientation.  The Equalities and Diversity Data Tool provides baseline data on these groups, as well as comparisons against the whole population.
The work was commissioned from OCSI by the South-East [...]

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OCSI Output Area Index of Multiple Deprivation data available

July 4th, 2008

The OCSI modelled Index of Multiple Deprivation data at Output Area (OA) level is now available, covering all OAs across England.
The data was developed in work with the Norfolk Rural Community Council, and validated at national level by OCSI on a project commissioned by the national Commission for Rural Communities.
The OA datasets enable a more detailed examination [...]

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OCSI ‘Deprivation in rural areas’ published

July 2nd, 2008

The Commission for Rural Communities (CRC) has published the OCSI report ‘Deprivation in rural areas: Quantitative analysis and socio-economic classification’ . The report is available from http://www.ruralcommunities.gov.uk/publications/deprivationquantitativefullreport.
OCSI were commissioned by CRC to undertake research to help fill gaps in the evidence base on rural deprivation, which was highlighted by the CRC Disadvantage Study in 2006. [...]

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