Summary
Interactive maps and associated downloads
Interactive maps
The interactive maps cover those subjects analysed on this website where up-to-date data is available at a sub-regional level.
Before looking at any of the maps, please read the following carefully:
- Because of the vector-based boundaries, the maps are quite large and will therefore take some time to load. This is why each map will open in a new window - so that you can continue browsing the rest of the website while it is loading.
- The maps are in SVG format and use standard SVG controls. To view it, you need the free Adobe SVG viewer plugin, version 3.03 which may or may not already be installed on your PC. If the map does not appear, install the Adobe SVG viewer plugin, version 3.03.
- The maps have only been tested using the Internet Explorer browser and Windows. They do not, for example, currently work using Firefox. There is a known problem when using the Adobe SVG viewer in combination with Firefox.
- The higher your screen resolution, the better the maps will appear and the more useful will be their interactive features. There is little point looking at the maps if your screen resolution is smaller than 1024*768.
The maps are currently experimental and any feedback would be appreciated. Just send an email to info@npi.org.uk.
Similarly, if you like any of the maps but would like a higher resolution for a particular part of the country, just send an email to info@npi.org.uk.
I am using Internet Explorer and Windows, take me to the maps:
View the district-based map (0.4MB; opens in a new window). This map covers benefit recipiency, lacking paid work, low pay, premature deaths, low birthweight babies, low educational attainment and homelessness. For most statistics, its scope is Great Britain. Note that the data available at a sub-regional level is much more limited than that available at a regional level. This is because the Government suppresses district codes in most of its main surveys, partly because of supposed 'data disclosure' worries and partly because they think that district-level estimates would not be reliable due to small sample sizes. Northern Ireland is not included as its district-level statistics are generally not directly comparable with those of Great Britain.
View the ward-based map of benefits data (1.0MB; opens in a new window). Very little actual data post the 2001 Census is available at a ward level. This map covers benefit recipiency and its scope is Great Britain. Note that it is older versions of this benefits data that basically drive the various Indices of Deprivation and, although the indices are wider than benefits, much of the rest of their underlying data is 'modelled' rather than actual small-area data. Northern Ireland is not included as its ward-level statistics are not directly comparable with those of Great Britain.
View the district-based and ward-based maps together (slower download than either of the maps above; opens in a new window).
View the map with statistics for education and social services for upper tier
local authorities (England only) (0.2MB; opens in a new window).
This map covers education and social services and its scope is England.
Unlike housing etc, education and social services are the responsibility of upper tier rather than lower tier (district) local
authorities and that is the level at which the statistics are generally
published.
Whereas the upper and lower tiers are the same for London, metropolitan and unitary authorities,
they are different for the rest of the counties in England. In other words, these other counties of England span multiple local authority districts.
The map is for England only as the equivalent data for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is not directly comparable.
For a discussion of what data is available at what geographic levels, see the page on levels of geography.
Associated downloads
Download the district-level statistics.
Download the ward-level statistics.