Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation Child Index 2011

The Child Index is the official measure of relative deprivation relating to children for small areas in Wales. The Child Index 2011 updates the previous release in 2008. It is produced by the Welsh Government.

The key points from the latest release are:

• the full data set for the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation: Child Index 2011, which ranks the 1,896 small areas of Wales according to their relative deprivation relating to children, can be downloaded from the Welsh Government’s StatsWales web pages;
• the Child Index 2011 Summary Report, which includes a summary of the Child Index 2011, local authority analysis, guidance on how to download and use the Child Index, a summary of methodological changes; a list of the indicators used to create the Child Index 2011, is available from the Welsh Government’s statistics web pages;
• the WIMD: indicator analysis will be updated with the Child Index 2011 indicators following the publication of the Child Index 2011;
• Rhyl South West 2, Denbighshire, is identified by the Child Index 2011 as the most deprived area in Wales for children. Rhyl West 2 is ranked second, and Townhill 1, Swansea, which was the most deprived area in 2008, is ranked third in the Child Index 2011.
• Rhyl West 1, Denbighshire was ranked second in the Child Index 2008, and has moved to rank 13 in 2011.
• The local authority in Wales with the highest fraction of its lower layer super output areas (LSOAs, the small areas on which the Child Index is based) is Cardiff, with more than one in five (22.2%) of its 203 LSOAs in the most deprived 10% in Wales. Newport is the next most deprived local authority by this measure, with just under one in five (18.1%) of its 94 LSOAs in the most deprived 10% in Wales.
• Powys, Ceredigion and Monmouthshire have none of their LSOAs in the most deprived 10% in Wales.
• Over one in four (25.8%) children identified as income deprived in the Child Index 2011 income domain reside in the most deprived 10% of areas in Wales.

Further information

The publication can be found under 'Related Links'.

Contact

Tel: 029 2081 5061
E-mail: stats.inclusion@wales.gsi.gov.uk

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