The Department of Environment Index (DoE) is an index of urban
poverty published by the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and designed to assess relative levels of deprivation in
local authorities
Local government is a generic term for the lowest tiers of public administration within a particular sovereign state. This particular usage of the word government refers specifically to a level of administration that is both geographically-loca ...
in
ngland (Elliot, 1997)
The DoE has three dimensions of deprivation: social, economic and housing.
References
* Elliott P, Cuzick J, English D, Stern R. ''Geographical and Environmental Epidemiology: Methods for Small-Area Studies''. Oxford University Press. New York, 1997
Environment of England
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