Different methods of calculating have been developed due to a long term need to research deprivation through census data and the ever-changing indications of deprivation. I am currently using the 2011 census to calculate deprivation scores for the UK using the Townsend index. many ways deprivation can be calculated however, we have decided this one is appropriate as it measures material deprivation exclusively rather than incorporating social deprivation meaning it can romania rcs data be consistently calculated over time. It is also comparable across the UK.
Before jumping into the data and calculating the deprivation scores it was important to first understand what Townsend’s Index measures and how to measure it. Information on the index was readily available and easy to find giving the initial feeling that the resources required at each stage of the project would be easily found (they weren’t).
Research taught us that Townsend Deprivation scores are calculated based on 4 indicators of deprivation: non-home ownership, non-car ownership, unemployment and overcrowding.
This is calculated by first finding percentage non-car ownership, percentage non- home ownership, percentage unemployment and percentage overcrowding.
The percentages for each area then need to be normalised for the unemployment and overcrowding indicators as these results are very skewed this is done by: ln(percentage value +1).