Identification

Title

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020

Abstract

The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 is the Scottish Government’s official tool for identifying concentrations of deprivation in Scotland. SIMD20 is the Scottish Government’s sixth edition since 2004. The Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) combines seven different domains (aspects) of deprivation: income; employment; health; education, skills and training; geographic access to services; crime; and housing. These domains are measured using a number of indicators to form ranks for each domain. Data zones are ranked from 1 being most deprived to 6,976 being least deprived. Each of the seven domain ranks are then combined to form the overall SIMD. This provides a measure of relative deprivation at data zone level, so it tells you that one data zone is relatively more deprived than another but not how much more deprived.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/WMSServer?

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: SIMD2020

description: OGC View Service

function: information

https://maps.gov.scot/server/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/WFSServer?

protocol: OGC:WFS

name: SOC:SIMD2020

description: OGC Feature Download Service

function: download

https://maps.gov.scot/server/rest/services/ScotGov/PeopleSociety/MapServer/7

protocol: ESRI:REST

name: Scottish Index Multiple Deprivation 2020

description: ESRI REST Service

function: download

https://maps.gov.scot/ATOM/shapefiles/SG_SIMD_2020.zip

protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

name: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

description: ESRI Shapefile Download

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

SG_SIMD_2020

codeSpace

www.gov.scot

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Additional information source

http://www.gov.scot/simd

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

society

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Population distribution — demography

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

social inequality

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-01-13

Keyword set

keyword value

Deprivation

Keyword set

keyword value

Social issues

Life in the community

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-11-18

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2007-12-13

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2020-01-28

date type

revision

effective date

2021-10-04

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

The methodology used to construct the SIMD is based on the approach developed by Oxford University for the Scottish Indices of Deprivation in 2003. Since that publication, the Scottish Government have published indices of multiple deprivation in 2004, 2006, 2009, 2012, 2016 and 2020. Full details of the methodology used to construct the SIMD 2020 are available in the technical notes (https://www.gov.scot/collections/scottish-index-of-multiple-deprivation-2020/).

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

false

explanation

Data format

name of format

WMS

version of format

1.3.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Available under the terms of the Open Government Licence. The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year).

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

GIS Analyst

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

web address

https://www.gov.scot/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

contact position

Statistician

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

simd@gov.scot

web address

https://www.gov.scot/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

GIS Analyst

organisation name

Scottish Government

full postal address

Victoria Quay

Edinburgh

EH6 6QQ

United Kingdom

email address

GI-SAT@gov.scot

web address

https://www.gov.scot/

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2021-10-25T12:21:00

Metadata language