Abstract

Since 1971, census information has been used to identify localities where a high proportion of households are living under adverse social and economic conditions. The initial intention was that such areas should be provided with extra resources to improve the quality of life of individual people and their families. Underlying this exercise was the assumption that improving local facilities (by upgrading housing estates or setting up educational priority areas) could improve residents' opportunity and quality of life without changing individual circumstances such as low wages or unemployment.1 The items from the 1971 census used for the original Department of Environment deprivation index therefore included measures of housing quality and proxy measures of income such as employment status. Other variables such as the numbers of …

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