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C��mpi��hcn.i� c,Aciehh„urhnod Studic.: C hara.icrinnp I)cclinc Recreational No holiday away (rom home dunng last 12 mon[hs Educatio� Fewer than 10 years educa[ion DeprivaUon indicators are usually obtained from local surveys or the national census, with the latter being the most commonly used source in British and US smdies (Broadway and Jesty ]998, p. 1424). In Britain, a number of indices of deprivation have been developed each to meet different objectives. The Jarman Underprivileged Area Score, Townsend Material Deprivation Score and the series of indices that have been produced by the (former) Department of the Environment (DoE) and the Department of Environment, Transport and the Regions, are some of the more commonly used indices. A brief summary of some of them is presented below (Devon County Councii): • The Breadline Britain Score provides an estimate of the percentage of the poor households in an area. The index contains six variables: unemployment, lack of owner occupied accommodation and lack of car ownership, as well as three 'at risk' variables: limiting long-term illness, lone pazent households, and low social class. • The Index of Local Conditions provides a general index of urban deprivation and also allows identifying specific aspects of material and social deprivation. The index comprises 13 variables, six non-census (ratio of long-term to all unemployed, Income Support recipients, low educational attainment, standardised mortality rates, derelict land and house contents insurance premiums) and seven census-based (unemployment, children in low earning households, overcrowding, housing lacking basic amenities, lack of car ownership, children in 'unsuitable' accommodation, and educational participation at age 17). • Townsend Score and the Carstairs Score were both developed as measures of material deprivation. The Townsend Score includes four variables: unemployment, overcrowding, tack of owner occupied accommodation, and lack of car ownership. This index is considered to be the best indicator of material deprivation currently available. • The Jarman Underprivileged Areu Score was originally constructed as a measure of General Practice workload. The score is used ro take the geographical variations in the demand for primary care into account. It consists of eight variables: unemployment, overcrowding, lone parents, elderly, % of residents aged under 5 years, ethnicity, residential mobility, and low socia] class. The paper by the Northern Ireland Assembly Meusures of Deprivation: Nofile V Robson (2002) provides a brief outline of the Robson and Noble measures of deprivation and highlights the main differences between them. The Robson index empioyed 18 indicators, covering the areas of health, shelter, physical environmen[, education, family, income and jobs (Table 7). .-. ^ 33