Health Expectancies by Deprivation in England, 2011-2017

Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy, and disability-free life expectancy statistics for England, stratified by national deprivation deciles. The data includes slope index of inequality and range metrics at birth and age 65. It was published by the Government Digital Service under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling the relationship between socioeconomic deprivation and health outcomes based on life expectancy metrics.
• Analyzing health inequality trends over time based on the slope index of inequality (SII) and range data.
• Comparing healthy life expectancy (HLE) and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) across different deprivation deciles.

Strengths

• Provides multiple health expectancy metrics (LE, HLE, DFLE) for comparative analysis.
• Covers a seven-year time period from 2011 to 2017.
• Includes inequality measures (SII and range) to quantify health disparities.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from national health and census statistics.

Time Range

2011 to 2017

Freshness

unknown

Geography

England