Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2014 revised: Health board maps (2015)

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The Public Health Wales Observatory has published:

 Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation 2014 revised: Health board maps (.docx).

This document contains lower super output area (LSOA) maps of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation (WIMD) 2014 for Wales and each health board. The document, consisting of eight maps, provides a visual representation of the WIMD 2014 data by national fifths of deprivation.

A presentation (.pptx) with one map per slide is also available.

The WIMD, originally published in November 2014 by the Welsh Government, is the official measure for deprivation for small areas in Wales. It is used to give an overall deprivation rank for each of the 1,909 LSOAs in Wales from 1 (most deprived) to 1,909 (least deprived).

Following the original publication, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) discovered an error in the income indicator data they had provided. The data had been included in the income domain of WIMD 2014. This error has since been corrected and a revised WIMD 2014 dataset was published on 12^th August 2015.

More information regarding WIMD can be found on the Observatory and Welsh Government websites.