Key results from the Leicestershire Indices of Deprivation 2007

About This Report:

This report provides a more detailed analysis of overall deprivation in Leicestershire than the headline deprivation results released by the research team in January 2007. The new Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 (IMD 2007) is one of the most widely used data sets by local authorities to understand their communities and to prioritise resources. IMD 2007 is a Lower layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level measure of overall deprivation, and is made up of seven LSOA level domain indices. The seven domains are: income deprivation, employment deprivation, health deprivation and disability, education skills and training deprivation, barriers to housing and services, living environment deprivation, and crime. There are also two supplementary indices: Income Deprivation Affecting Children and Income Deprivation Affecting Older People. These domains and the overall Indices, together with summaries of local authority districts and counties, are referred to collectively as the Indices of Deprivation 2007 (ID 2007). ID 2007 uses up-to-date data, but is based on the same approach, structure and methodology that was used to create the previous ID 2004. Therefore, ID 2007 allows for the first time the monitoring of small area change in deprivation.