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Measuring deprivation in England and Wales using 2001 Carstairs scores
Author(s)	Oliver Morgan, Allan Baker
Journal title	Health Statistics Quarterly, no 31, Autumn 2006
Pages	pp 28-33
Source	http://www.statistics.gov.uk
Keywords	Poverty ; Census ; Measurement ; Indicators ; England ; Wales.
Annotation	In the 1980s, Vera Carstairs and Russell Morris developed an index designed to be used for health analysis which would measure relative material deprivation in small areas and with small populations. Carstairs scores were first calculated using data from the 1981 Census, and were based on four indicators from the Census which were considered to represent material disadvantage, and have since been widely used to examine the relationship between deprivation and health. This article describes how Carstairs scores were calculated for England and Wales, based on data from the 2001 Census and also presents the resulting geographical patterns of deprivation. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-061114204 A
Classmark	W6: S4C: 3R: 3RI: 82: 9
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