Indices of Multiple Deprivation for York, 2007-2019

The English Indices of Multiple Deprivation 2019, published on 26th September 2019, is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas in England. This dataset contains scores and ranks for York only, covering the years 2007, 2010, 2015, and 2019, aggregated by the city's 21 wards. The data is produced by the Government Digital Service and combines seven deprivation domains, including Income and Employment, which are based on data from a 2015/16 time point.

Use Cases

• Mapping relative deprivation patterns across York wards based on the seven domain scores.
• Analyzing trends in income and employment deprivation over the 2007-2019 period.
• Comparing the impact of different deprivation domains, such as Health or Barriers to Housing, on overall rankings.
• Assessing child and older people income deprivation using the supplementary IDACI and IDAOPI indices.

Strengths

• Official government measure of deprivation for England, providing authoritative scores and ranks.
• Covers four distinct time points (2007, 2010, 2015, 2019) for longitudinal analysis.
• Includes data aggregated for 21 York wards in addition to small-area (LSOA) level.
• Based on seven weighted deprivation domains and two supplementary income indices.

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The indices measure relative, not absolute, deprivation, limiting direct temporal comparisons of improvement or worsening.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Official government statistics combining administrative data sources for each indicator domain.

Time Range

2007, 2010, 2015, 2019 (with core Income/Employment indicators from 2015/16).

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

York, England (Lower Layer Super Output Areas and wards).