Testing the Expert Based Weights Used in the UK’s Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Against Three Preference-Based Methods
| Autor: | Verity Watson, Chris Dibben, Iain Atherton, Matthew Cox, Matt Sutton, Mandy Ryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Index (economics)
Sociology and Political Science Inequality Culture and Communities media_common.quotation_subject 050109 social psychology Multiple deprivation multidimensional index weights deprivation preferences deprivation Empirical research Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform 0502 economics and business Statistics Developmental and Educational Psychology 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 050207 economics Dimension (data warehouse) preferences Population and Public Health Research Group media_common multidimensional index weights 05 social sciences General Social Sciences Preference Test (assessment) Identification (information) 303 Social processes Demographic change |
| Zdroj: | Watson, V, Dibben, C, Cox, M, Atherton, I, Sutton, M & Ryan, M 2019, ' Testing the expert based weights used in the UK’s Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) against three preference-based methods. ', Social Indicators Research . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-02054-z Watson, V, Dibben, C, Cox, M, Atherton, I, Sutton, M & Ryan, M 2019, ' Testing the Expert Based Weights Used in the UK’s Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) Against Three Preference-Based Methods ', Social Indicators Research . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-018-02054-z |
| ISSN: | 1573-0921 0303-8300 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11205-018-02054-z |
| Popis: | The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), used widely in England, is an important tool for social need and inequality identification. It summarises deprivation across seven dimensions (income, employment, health, education, housing and services, environment, and crime) to measure an area’s multidimensional deprivation. The IMD aggregates the dimensions that are differentially weighted using expert judgement. In this paper, we test how close these weights are to society’s preferences about the relative importance of each dimension to overall deprivation. There is not agreement in the literature on how to do this. This paper, therefore, develops and compares three empirical methods for estimating preference-based weights. We find the weights are similar across the methods, and between our empirical methods and the current IMD, but our findings suggest a change to two of the weights. |
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