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Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2016

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2016 is the Scottish Government’s official tool for identifying concentrations of deprivation in Scotland. SIMD16 is the Scottish Government’s fifth 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)
2016-08-31
Identifier
www.gov.scot / SG_SIMD_2016
Presentation form
Digital map
Publisher
  Scottish Government - GI-SAT ( Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team )
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
Point of contact
  Scottish Government - SIMD ( Communities Analytical Services )
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , Scotland , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Population distribution — demography

GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4

  • social inequality

IPSV Subjects List

  • Social issues

  • Life in the community

Keywords
  • Deprivation

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

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?

SIMD2016

OGC:WFS

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

SOC:SIMD2016

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/6

Scottish Index Multiple Deprivation 2016

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_SIMD_2016.zip

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2016

 
 

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 and 2016. Full details of the methodology used to construct the SIMD 2016 are available in the technical notes ( http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0050/00504822.pdf).

 

Metadata

File identifier
b5d408a8-9e74-4421-8cfc-fedf66101af8 XML
Metadata Language
English
Resource type
Dataset
Metadata Date
2021-01-14T16:42:14
Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Point of contact

Individual name

GI-SAT

Organisation name

Scottish Government

Position name

Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team

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 - GI-SAT ( Geographic Information Science and Analysis Team )
Victoria Quay , Edinburgh , EH6 6QQ , United Kingdom
 
 
 

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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