Transcript Open - The Scottish Government

Scottish Index of Multiple
Deprivation
Improving SIMD for 2015
Alastair McAlpine
Head of Local Outcomes
Team
Office of Chief Statistician
and Performance
Scottish Government
Facilitators
Cath Dickie
Ian Volante
Gregor Boyd
Victoria Kinnear-Lachhab
Ice-Breaker
Role/Post
Organisation
Whether you use SIMD now or plan to use it
What you use SIMD for / would like to use it for
What goes
into SIMD?
Domains / Categories
Access
Crime
Education
Employment
Health
Housing
Income
SIMD Indicators
Employment
• Claimant Count
• Incapacity Benefit or
Employment Support
Allowance
• Severe Disablement
Allowance
Housing
• Persons in households
which are overcrowded
• Persons in households
without central heating
Health
• Standard Mortality Ratio •
• Hospital stays due to
alcohol/drug misuse
• Comparative Illness Factor •
• Emergency stays in hospital
Income
• Adults and Children in
Income Support or
Income-based Support
Allowance households
• Adults in Guarantee
Pension Credit
Households
• Adults and children in Job
Seekers Allowance
Households
• Adults and Children in
Tax Credit Households
Estimated population
prescribed drugs for anxiety,
depression or psychosis
Proportion of low weight
singleton live births
Crime
• Domestic house breaking
• Drug Offences
• Common Assault
• Crimes of Violence
• Vandalism
• Sexual Offences
Education
• Pupil absence
• Pupil performance at
SQA 4
• Working age with no
qualifications
• 17-21 enrolling into full
time education
• School leavers not in
education employment
or training
Access
• Drive and Public
Transport times to GP/
retail centre / post office
• Drive times to petrol
stations / schools
Workshop Session 1 – What’s Working?
• What’s positive?
»Data
»What do you use
the Analysis for?
The Future
How can we improve
• Relevance - Data
- Frequency
• Reliability
- Geography
- Scope
- Analysis