The Scottish index of multiple deprivation (SIMD) is a statistical tool used by

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, the Scottish government, the NHS and other government bodies in Scotland to support policy and decision making. It won the

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's Excellence in Official Statistics Awards in 2017. The 2016 release, known as SIMD16, was issued in August of that year and replaced the 2012 dataset. The Scottish index of multiple deprivation measures across seven domains: current income, employment, health, education, skills and training, housing, geographic access and crime. These seven domains are calculated and weighted for 6,976 small areas, called ‘data zones’, with roughly equal population. With the population total at 5.3 million that comes to an average population of 760 people per data zone. This article contains quotations from this source, which is available under th
Open Government Licence v3.0
© Crown copyright. The principle behind the index is to target government action in the areas which need it most.

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Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
on the Scottish Government website
Deprivation in Scotland 2012
Google Maps overlaid with SIMD12 data by Professor Alasdair Rae of the University of Sheffield

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