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
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Population distribution — demography
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GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
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social inequality
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- Keywords
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Deprivation
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IPSV Subjects List
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Social issues
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Life in the community
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Other constraints
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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
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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
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- Society
- Extent
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GB-SCT
ISO3166-2 2007-12-13
![](https://spatialdata.gov.scot/geonetwork/srv/api/regions/geom.png?geomsrs=EPSG:4326&geom=POLYGON((-0.71%2054.63,-0.71%2060.87,-8.8%2060.87,-8.8%2054.63,-0.71%2054.63)))
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Additional information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700) / 7.4
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version WMS
1.3.0
WFS
2.0.0
ESRI REST
1.0
ESRI Shapefile
1.0
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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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
- Statement
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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
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Organisation name
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Scottish Government
- Position name
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GIS Analyst
- Delivery point
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Victoria Quay
- City
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Edinburgh
- Postal code
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EH6 6QQ
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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GI-SAT@gov.scot SAT@gov.sco GI-SAT@gov.scot
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- Point of contact