Hinckley & Bosworth Area Deprivation Indices 2000 by Ward

Domains

Income: Measures people who are on low income. The indicators in this domain are in the form of non-overlapping counts of people in families in receipt of means tested benefit.

Employment: Measures forced exclusion from work through unemployment, sickness or disability.

Health: Identifies people whose quality of life is impaired by either poor health or disability.

Education: Predominately measures lack of qualifications amongst adults and children of different ages in a local area.

Housing: Identifies people living in unsatisfactory housing, and, in the extreme case, homelessness.

Geographical Access to Services: Focused solely on people with low incomes (on benefits) as they are more likely to be experiencing the disadvantage of lack of access to services more acutely than those on higher incomes.

Child Poverty Index: Is a subset of the income Domain Index, and shows the percentage of children in each ward that live in families that claim means tested benefits.

Rank: A rank of 1 is assigned to the most deprived ward, a rank of 8414 is assigned to the least deprived.

Source: DETR, Indices of Deprivation 2000