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These deprivation scores are based on those created by Townsend, Morris, Carstairs, Jarman and the Department of the Environment (DoE).

Calculating measures of deprivation is perhaps one of the commonest uses of census data. Data on, for example, housing, employment, social class and availability of cars are used to create a single measure of area deprivation. There are various measures of deprivation that use different census variables or give different weights to the same variables.

In addition, the Deprivation data webpage at UK Data Service Census Support provides more information and links to related measures available elsewhere.

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The following deprivation scores can be downloaded:

• 2001 Carstairs and Townsend Scores
• 1991 Carstairs Scores
• 1991 Townsend Scores
• 1991 DoE, Jarman, Carstairs and Townsend Scores