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Isolated Entities or Integrated Neighbourhoods? An Alternative View of the Measurement of Deprivation

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  • Alasdair Rae

    (Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Western Bank, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK, a.j.rae@sheffield.ac.uk)

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The use of area-based deprivation indices is now a firmly established means of assessing which areas ought to be the focus of government policy, with separate indices of deprivation established for each constituent part of the UK. In England, the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004 has been widely used to support decision-making for key urban policies and in more local assessments of deprivation. Implicit in the development and use of these indicators is the notion that area matters and that it can be an important influence on a whole range of different activities. However, there is also a sense in which contemporary measures of deprivation are spatially short-sighted since they are not able to account formally for the spatial context of individual locations. This paper therefore offers an alternative approach to the measurement of local conditions by combining spatial statistical approaches with a much-used deprivation index.

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  • Alasdair Rae, 2009. "Isolated Entities or Integrated Neighbourhoods? An Alternative View of the Measurement of Deprivation," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 46(9), pages 1859-1878, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:46:y:2009:i:9:p:1859-1878
    DOI: 10.1177/0042098009106019
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