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Investigating the Impact of Changing the Weights that Underpin the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004

Investigating the Impact of Changing the Weights that Underpin the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004

Published 22 May 2007
Type(s) Research and statistics
Site Communities and neighbourhoods
Product code 07NRAD0463(c)
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Summary

The report describes the three methods used to derive empirical weights for the Index of Multiple Deprivation. The researchers used a survey approach, a revealed preference approach and a discrete choice experiment which all aimed to identify the 'relative' importance of each of the seven domains of deprivation and use this to assign weights to combine the domains into the IMD. The three methods produced relatively similar results leading the researchers to conclude that it would be best to use the mean weight across the three methods. The only exception to this is the Living Environment Domain which remains as it was in the IMD 2004.

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