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Deprivation indexes — do they measure up?
Author(s)	David Cubey
Journal title	Research, Policy and Planning, vol 17, no 2, 1999
Pages	pp 23-32
Keywords	Grant allocation ; Living patterns ; Poverty ; Measurement ; Indicators ; East Sussex.
Annotation	Of central concern to social services departments (SSDs) over the past 20 years has been how to allocate or target resources to those most in need of services. This has sometimes resulted in the use of indexes of deprivation or health need (such as the Jarman index) for purposes for which they were not intended. The focus of this paper is on the identification of a valid and reliable model for allocating social services resources to older people in East Sussex. The model operationalises the Breadline Britain index of deprivation (Gordon and Forest, 1995) at District level, and combines the results with those obtained from operationalising a synthetic model of the levels of disability in the older population (Disability, age and social context: technical analysis of OPCS Survey of disability of the elderly in private residences as a basis for synthetic modelling, by L J Opit, Centre for Health Studies, University of Kent, 1992). It is argued that this model can be validly and reliably applied to other local authorities. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-000121208 A
Classmark	QCG: K7: W6: 3R: 3RI: 8E
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