ID 2007 Average IMD Score: Population-Weighted Deprivation for English Districts

2007 population-weighted average Index of Multiple Deprivation scores for Local Authority Districts in England. This administrative dataset, transformed for statistical use, originates from the UK's Communities and Local Government department and is published by Neighbourhood Statistics. It provides a single-year snapshot of relative socioeconomic deprivation across England.

Use Cases

• Ranking local districts by relative deprivation levels based on the combined IMD score.
• Analyzing the geographic distribution of socioeconomic disadvantage across England for the year 2007.
• Correlating district-level deprivation with other administrative or health outcome data from the same period.
• Providing a baseline measure for longitudinal studies of deprivation trends before and after 2007.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from the authoritative UK government body Communities and Local Government.
• Geographic coverage is specific and complete for England.
• Temporal coverage is precisely defined as the year 2007.
• The license is clearly stated as OGL-UK-3.0, facilitating reuse.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Communities and Local Government (CLG): ID 2007

Collection Method

Administrative data (with statistical transformations applied)

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:02.850283; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority)