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Statistics

Accurate statistics are essential when planning services and writing funding applications.

A good place to start with, to get a general view of Midlothian and the multi-member ward areas, is the Midlothian Profile. This is published by the Community Planning Partnership Research and Information Group (CPRIG). The CPRIG includes representatives from a number of Community Planning Partnership (CPP) agencies including MVA.

The Midlothian Profile is available from the Midlothian Council website.

Other useful statistics can be found on:

  • Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics (SNS) website - www.sns.gov.uk
    SNS is the Scottish Executive's ongoing programme to improve the availability, consistency and accessibility of small area statistics in Scotland.  The website was revamped in February 2007 and is much easier to use.  Available features include:
    • Quick Profile - simply enter a postcode and press Go!
    • Standard Reporter - five standard reports available:
      • Area Profile
      • Compare 2 Areas
      • Change Over Time Across an Area
      • Change Over Time
      • Variation Across an Area
    • Advanced Reporter- this feature allows multiple areas and statistics about these areas to be selected and analysed in either a tabular or geographic format.
    • Data Downloads - these are aimed more at statistical experts and statistics departments.

     

  • Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2009 – Midlothian - The new Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2009 – was published on 29 October 2009 by the Scottish Government and was updated on 20 July 2010 - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Statistics/SIMD/

The SIMD identifies small area concentrations of multiple deprivation across all of Scotland.  It is intended to allow effective targeting of policies and funding where the aim is to wholly or partly tackle or take account of area concentrations of multiple deprivation.

The new improved Interactive Mapping facility shows the SIMD ranking for 2009; 2006; and 2004; and also shows comparisons between the different years.  In addition, for 2009, the separate domain information can be viewed, as follows:   Income; Employment; Health; Education; Geographic Access; Housing; and Crime.  The new interactive map also lists all the data zones that relate to the map, in SIMD ranking order, and gives information on Intermediate Geography, local authority, constituency area etc.

There is also a new facility to find out information for individual postcodes.

As well as the interactive facility, a number of reports have been published.   Of particular interest may be the “Guidance Leaflet” and the “General Report” – page 78 of the General Report contains brief information on Midlothian, including a map showing Midlothian’s share of the 20% most deprived datazones in Scotland.

Note:  the SIMD 2009 Guidance leaflet covers what the SIMD 2009 can and can’t be used for.    The Guidance includes:

  • The SIMD can be used to compare datazones – the smaller the rank the more deprived the datazone.
  • The SIMD ranks cannot be used to determine how much more deprived one datazone is than another.  A datazone ranked 50 is not twice as deprived as one ranked 100 – it is simply more deprived.  

 Reference should be made to the Guidance Leaflet and to the 2009 General Report.

 It should be remembered that not everyone who is deprived lives in a deprived area and not everyone living in a deprived area is deprived, for example, the 2009 General Report states that there were 11,420 income deprived people living in Midlothian but that only 1,115 of them were in the 15% most deprived datazones.

Further information on the SIMD 2009 in Midlothian can be found in the Midlothian Profile  on the Midlothian Council website.

In addition, MVA have produced a summary on the SIMD 2009 version 2 in Midlothian which can be obtained by email from MVA - tel: 0131 663 9471.

     

If you experience problems downloading any documents, or unable to find the information you are looking for, or if you would like some help, please contact MVA's Information Officer, Margaret Nisbet, who will do her best to help you.

In addition, the Information Officer holds e-mail lists for a number of subjects, including Statistics, and produces occasional e-briefings.  Further details of the e-mail lists, copies of previous e-briefings, as well as other publications, are available on the Publications section of this website.   If you would like to be added to any of the e-mail lists, please complete the online form from that section.

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