Health State Life Expectancies by Deprivation Decile in Wales, 2011-2017

2011 to 2017 data on life expectancy (LE), healthy life expectancy (HLE), and disability-free life expectancy (DFLE) for Wales, stratified by national deprivation deciles (WIMD14). The dataset is provided by the Government Digital Service and published under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyzing health inequality trends based on deprivation deciles.
• Modeling the relationship between socioeconomic status and healthy life expectancy.
• Evaluating public health interventions by tracking changes in disability-free life expectancy over time.

Strengths

• Includes three distinct health expectancy metrics (LE, HLE, DFLE).
• Stratified by a standardized national deprivation index (WIMD14).
• Covers a seven-year time period (2011-2017).

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

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Time Range

2011 to 2017

Freshness

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Geography

Wales