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Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 is the Scottish Government’s official tool for identifying concentrations of deprivation in Scotland. SIMD20 is the Scottish Government’s sixth edition since 2004. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) combines seven different domains (aspects) of deprivation: income; employment; health; education, skills and training; geographic access to services; crime; and housing. These domains are measured using a number of indicators to form ranks for each domain. Data zones are ranked from 1 being most deprived to 6,976 being least deprived. Each of the seven domain ranks are then combined to form the overall SIMD. This provides a measure of relative deprivation at data zone level, so it tells you that one data zone is relatively more deprived than another but not how much more deprived.

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Identification info

Metadata Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Dataset Reference Date (Publication)
2020-01-28
Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
2021-10-04
Identifier
www.gov.scot / SG_SIMD_2020
Presentation form
Digital map
Publisher
  Scottish Government - GIS Analyst
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
https://www.gov.scot/
Point of contact
  Scottish Government - Statistician
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
https://www.gov.scot/
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Population distribution — demography

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • social inequality

Keywords
  • Deprivation

IPSV Subjects List

  • Social issues

  • Life in the community

Limitations on Public Access
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Open Government Licence
Other constraints

Available under the terms of the Open Government Licence. The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).

Other constraints

Dataset is complete for Scotland. Care should be taken when using this dataset with lookups to other postcode based geographies. Some postcode unit boundaries will have changed since data zones were created therefore exact match of the boundaries are unlikely.

Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
10000
Topic category
  • Society
Extent
GB-SCT

ISO3166-2 2007-12-13

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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
 
Temporal extent
 
Additional information

http://www.gov.scot/simd

 
Reference system identifier
EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4

Distribution Information

Data format

Data format
Name Version

WMS

1.3.0

WFS

2.0.0

ESRI REST

1.0

ESRI Shapefile

1.0

 

Transfer options

Resource Locator
Protocol Resource Locator Name

OGC:WMS

https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/WMSServer?

SIMD2020

OGC:WFS

https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/WFSServer?

SOC:SIMD2020

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/7

Scottish Index Multiple Deprivation 2020

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_SIMD_2020.zip

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

 
 

Data quality info

Quality Scope
Dataset
Conformity
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Explanation
Degree
false
Statement

The methodology used to construct the SIMD is based on the approach developed by Oxford University for the Scottish Indices of Deprivation in 2003. Since that publication, the Scottish Government have published indices of multiple deprivation in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2020. Full details of the methodology used to construct the SIMD 2020 are available in the technical notes ( https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-index-of-multiple-deprivation-2020/).

 

Metadata

File identifier
02866b0b-66e5-46ab-9b1c-d433dc3c2fae XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2021-10-25T12:21:00
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Organisation name

Scottish Government

Position name

GIS Analyst

Delivery point

Victoria Quay

City

Edinburgh

Postal code

EH6 6QQ

Country

United Kingdom

Electronic mail address

GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot

Role
Point of contact
Point of contact
  Scottish Government - GIS Analyst
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
https://www.gov.scot/
 
 
 

Overviews

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Keywords

Deprivation
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
social inequality
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Population distribution — demography
IPSV Subjects List
Life in the community Social issues

Publishing Body

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Associated resources (if any)

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