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Guide to Using MAIDeN Data
Contents
1. General features of MAIDeN Information
Confidentiality
Accuracy
Quality Control
2. Data held by MAIDeN
a) Populations and households
b) Ethnicity
c) Benefits and Income
National and local benefits
d) Childcare
e) Community Safety
Including crime, young offenders and road safety
f) Education
g) Build Environment and Housing
h) Health
i) Social Services
j) Indices of Deprivation
3. Making Comparisons
Percentages, Ranks and Rates
4. Matrices
Understanding colour coding
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1. General features of MAIDeN Information
Confidentiality of MAIDeN Information
Access to the MAIDeN Website is restricted to local public sector and
community organisations. MAIDeN information can be made available to other
organisations working for to improve community services in Gloucestershire.
MAIDeN data is designed to support public sector partnership development,
integrated service planning and bidding activity. Information available from
MAIDeN is not intended to be public information.
Partners who contribute information to MAIDeN do so on the understanding
that people will work with that information in a sensitive and professional
manner.
Information will be not be supplied that allows individuals to be identified.
Where information has been supplied by partners and is not generally in the
public domain, data will not be released for areas smaller than the smallest
ward in Gloucestershire (1500 people).
Accuracy
MAIDeN has been designed to provide information for small geographic areas,
where previously data was only available at district or county level. We don‟t
hold any personal or real-time information. We tend to take snapshots of data
e.g. a count of home care users on the 31st March. Allocation of users to small
areas is also subject to the accuracy of postcode and location recording in the
original datasets, which may lead small area figures being less than district or
county totals.
Therefore our figures are estimates not absolute counts, but will give an
indication of need or service use, and allow comparisons to be made between
areas.
MAIDeN Quality Control
We try to ensure that when we analyse data. we count the right things in the
right places. When you look at MAIDeN information for your particular patch, if
you find that the numbers look wrong, or don‟t fit with your experience please
get in touch with us so we can investigate.
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2) Data held by MAIDeN
The data on the website is the most commonly requested items, shown at
ward level. Other information listed below or other geographies, is available by
contacting us. This allows us to ensure that data released does not risk
identifying individuals.
a) Populations and households
Population estimates
Source: 2001 Census
Source: Gloucestershire County Council
Most of the population data on the website is from the 2001 Census.
We can also help you get hold of the latest Population estimates (mid 2005).
These are available from the Corporate Research Team at Gloucestershire
County Council. This team produces annual population estimates for
Gloucestershire wards and parishes, based on the most recent official
estimates of population for Local Authority Districts (published annually by the
Office of National Statistics). The electoral registers, and records of GP
registrations, are used to model District level population estimates down to
local areas. For more details contact the county council research team on
01452 425551, research@gloucestershire.gov.uk. This information is also
available from the website www.gloucestershire.gov.uk. Follow the links to
“About Gloucestershire” and then “Facts and Figures”.
We show populations in age bands but single years or other bands are
available on request.
Households
Source: 2001 Census
We have counts of households and the characteristics of households.
Births
Source: Public Health Information Unit – Cheltenham and Tewkesbury PCT
We have a count of births in the five years 1999 to 2003.
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b) Ethnicity and language
Ethnicity
Source: 2001 Census
We have data on the ethnicity of the population using the standard census
classifications.
White (British, Irish, other); Mixed (White and Black Caribbean, White and
Black African, White and Asian, Other); Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi,
other); Black (Caribbean, African, other); Chinese; and Other.
On request we can provide age breakdowns.
Children with English as an Additional Language
Source: GCC Education, Research and Monitoring
This is from the 2004 Pupil Level Annual School Census
List of languages spoken in Gloucestershire
Source: GCC Social Services Circle
This is only available for the whole county.
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c) Benefits and Income
National Benefits
Source: Department of Work and Pensions 2005
This data is for 2005 and has been released for the first time below ward level.
Data is now available down to Lower Super Output Area level. Detailed
descriptions of people eligible to claim each benefit is available from
www.dwp.gov.uk/lifeevent/benefits
Attendance Allowance
This is for people over 65 requiring help with personal care. We have figures
for claims at the both the higher and lower rates.
Disability Living Allowance
This is for people disabled before the age of 65, including children. There are
two components, mobility and care, depending on need.
Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance
These are for people of working age, who are not able to work. Data is
available for people aged under 50, 50 and over, claiming for 24 months or
more, and male/female.
Income Support
This is for people aged 16 to 60, who are not required to work or work less
than 16 hours a week, and have insufficient income to live on. Other benefits
apply to people over 60.
Data is available for all claimants and for lone parents.
Pension Credit
This is for people aged over 60 and replaces the Minimum Income Guarantee.
We can also provide counts of people over 75.
State Pension
This available by gender and for 65-74, and 75+ age bands.
Job Seekers Allowance
We have this by age 16-24 24-49 and 50+, and gender.
Other breakdowns of the data e.g. more detailed age bands, are available at
the higher levels of geography – district or middle super output areas.
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Local Benefits
Source: District Councils in Gloucestershire
Housing Benefit
We have counts of household claiming housing benefit at 1st October 2004.
Council Tax Benefit
We have counts of households claiming council tax at 1st October 2004.
Income
Source: CACI 2005
This is private sector data based on self-reporting.
Household Income
We have Household Income under £5,000; Household Income over £100,000
per year in 2002; and average household income.
Retirement Provision
We have counts of people “not confident of provision for retirement”.
Internet Access
We have details of people with access to the internet at home and of people
using the internet for home shopping.
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d) Childcare
Source: Early Years and Childcare Development Partnership
These are counts of all registered childcare places in February 2004. They are
counts of maximum places but capacity may be lower depending on the age of
children using the facility. Details are available for:
Full Daycare;
Sessional Daycare;
Childminder place;
Crèche Places; and
Out of School Care.
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e) Community Safety
Crime
Source: Gloucestershire Police
Data is available for the financial years 2001/2, 2002/3 and 2003/4.
The following key crimes are available:
Violent Crime
All recorded crimes under the Home Office categories of Sexual Offences,
Robbery and Violence against the person.
Domestic Burglary
All recorded burglaries of people's homes (i.e. excludes burglaries of non-
dwellings and commercial premises).
Theft of Vehicle
All recorded crimes of theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle and
aggravated vehicle taking.
Theft from Vehicle
All recorded crimes of theft from a motor or other vehicle.
Contact our Community Safety Analyst for more recent and detailed figures.
Young Offenders
Source: Gloucestershire Youth Offending Service
Data available for financial year 2003-4
This is a count of young people aged 10 to 19 on the caseload of the Youth
Offending Service.
Road Traffic Accidents
Source: Gloucestershire County Council
Data available for the three financial years from 2001 to 2004.
We have counts of all serious and fatal Road Traffic Accidents.
The severity of a Road Traffic Accident is assessed by Police Officers attending
the scene, who work to national guidelines. Fatal injury includes only those
cases where death occurs in less than 30 days as a result of the accident.
Examples of „serious‟ injury are: fracture; internal injury; severe cuts;
crushing; burns (excluding friction burns); concussion; severe general shock
requiring hospital treatment; detention in hospital as an in-patient, either
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immediately or later; injuries to casualties who die 30 or more days after the
accident from injuries sustained in that accident.
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f) Education
School age learning
Source: Gloucestershire County Council, Education Department, Research and
Monitoring Unit
Key Stage results
We have counts of pupils not meeting the target level in Key Stage 1,2, and 3
tests in 2003.
GCSE
Pupils obtaining 5 or more GCSE passes A* to C in 2002 and Pupils obtaining 1
or more GCSE passes.
Free School Meals
We have counts of primary school pupils eligible for free school meals in
January 2004.
Adult learning
Further Education
Source: Learning and Skills Council –Individual Student Records
We have counts, for the academic year 2001/2, of all students registered for
Further Education (FE), of the total number of FE Guided Learning Hours
delivered to residents, of Full-time, full year FE students, of FE students at
evening classes, of FE Students aged under 20.
Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET)
Source: Connexions
Counts of people aged 16 to 18 not falling into one of the above categories.
Basic Skills
Source: DFES Skills for Life Survey 2003
This covers numeracy, literacy, IT skills and ESOL.
This is at district and ward level and estimates the number of people with
entry level, level one and level 2 skills.
Libraries
Source: Gloucestershire Library Service
We have counts of the number of people borrowing children’s books from
libraries in August 2005. We have counts of the number of people
borrowing books from libraries in August 2005.
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g) Built Environment
Domestic Building Control Applications
Source: District Councils
Counts of applications for Building Regulation Approval between April and
September 2004. This does not include new builds.
Planning Applications
Source: Gloucestershire County Council Land Use Monitoring
Counts for 2004.
Fuel Poverty
Source: Severn Wye Energy Agency
Data available for 1998 wards. Counts of households in fuel poverty. This is
usually defined as people needing to spend more than 10% of their income to
keep warm. It is a combination of low income and poor energy efficiency.
Housing
Source: 2001 Census
The census records various characteristics of houses including, type (e.g. flat,
detached etc), central heating, overcrowding, shared facilities, tenancy or
ownership, lowest floor level.
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h) Health Information
Source: Public Health Information Unit, Cheltenham and Tewkesbury Primary
Care Trust
Hospital Admissions
This is for the 5 year period 2000 to 2004. We have counts of Emergency
Admissions and Admissions Following and Accident. We can also provide some
age breakdowns e.g. children or older people.
Deaths
This is for the 10 year period 1995 to 2004. We have counts of all people
dying before the age of 75. More details are available for deaths from cancer,
respiratory disease and circulatory disorders before age 75.
Low Birth Weight
This defined as under 2500g. This is for the 5 years 1999 to 2003.
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i) Social Services
Source: Gloucestershire Social Services STAR system
Adults
Open and active cases
This is a snapshot of cases at 31st March 2006 for adults and 2003 for
children.
Counts of all cases and of under 16s and older people.
Referrals 2005/6
These are counts for the whole financial year.
Home Care
This is a snapshot of cases at 31st March 2006.
Counts of adults and/or older people receiving a home care service.
Category
We can also provide details of service received e.g. learning difficulties, mental
health etc.
Children
We have the results from the Children in Need Census 2005.
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j) Indices of Deprivation
Source: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
The latest indices are the Indices of Deprivation 2004 (IoD2004). For more
information see www.communities.gov.uk/indices. The scores were
calculated at Oxford University, using data provided by national agencies.
These are national measures and are therefore powerful evidence to use in
bids to central government or for European funding.
The data is available at Lower Super Output Area (SOA) level for over 32,000.
areas across England. Previous indices used wards, but due to boundary
changes and changes in the items measured the indices are not directly
comparable.
These indices are usually expressed as a ranking or a percentage. There are
32482 SOAs in England, (e.g. an SOA ranking 3200 would be in the top 10%
and would be assessed as having a high level of deprivation). We also show
the actual score.
A detailed description of what each domain measures is available at
www.maiden.gov.uk/Documents/GuidetoIoDDomains.doc
Index of Multiple Deprivation
This is the headline figure and combines the scores of the other domains.
Income Domain
Also Income Deprivation affecting Children
Income Deprivation affecting Older People
Employment Domain
Health Deprivation and Disability Domain
Education, Skills and Training Domain
Barriers to Housing and Services Domain
This can be further broken down into:
Wider Barriers – affordability of housing, homelessness, housing in
poor condition; and
Physical Barriers – road distance to a GP, Post Office and Food store.
This is an area where the rural parts of Gloucestershire score very
poorly.
Crime Domain
Living Environment
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These scores come from the Indices of Deprivation 2004, published by the
Office of the Deputy Prime Minster. For more information see
www.odpm.gov.uk/indices. The scores were calculated at Oxford University,
using data provided by national agencies (Benefits Agency for example), and
published for over 32,000 Super Output Areas (SOA) across England.
We have provided the deprivation scores for each SOA , and ranks (most
deprived ward ranked 1) within England and within the County.
Older Indices
We also have details of the Indices of Deprivation 2000, and the Index of
Local Deprivation 1998 which are available on request.
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3. Making comparisons
Percentages
Where a percentage is quoted this will be a comparison of the data to the total
population that could have been in that category. E.g. the number of young
offenders will be quoted as a percentage of people aged 10 to 19.
Ranks
We often rank data so that you can quickly see how it compares to other
similar areas. A rank of 1 will always indicate the highest deprivation. The
ranges commonly used are:
Wards 1 to 142 in Gloucestershire
Super Output Areas 1 to 32454 (within England)
Super Output Areas 1 to 367 (within Gloucestershire)
Census Output Areas 1 to 1944 in Gloucestershire
Rates
These are used in a similar way to percentages, but also allow you to easily
see if an area is significantly different from the average for the county or
district. As a quick guide a rate of:
1 indicates the area is average
1.5 indicates 50% more than average
2 indicates double the average
0.5 indicates half the average
Some of the counts we are dealing with here are small numbers. Where small
numbers are involved you will often find very high or very low rates. If you are
using the rates in your work, make sure you understand the actual numbers
behind the rates.
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Example of calculation of rates
Rates tell you how big or small your counts are. For example, you might know
that there were 39 emergency admissions of older people in an area, but not
know if that was a lot or not very many. Given a particular population of older
people, how many emergency admissions might you expect?
The rates compare what‟s happening in the area to what‟s happening across
the whole county or within a district. We can calculate what percentage of the
county‟s older people live in any area, and the percentage of emergency
admissions coming from that area.
If an area has 2% of the County‟s older people then we might expect it to
have 2% of the corresponding emergency hospital admissions. If in fact, older
residents of the area account for 4% of County admissions, it will have a rate
of 2. In this example the figure of 39 is double what we might expect, given
the number of older people living in the area.
You can think of the rate as describing „likelihood‟ – an older person from the
area is twice as likely than a „random‟ older person selected from the whole
County, to have experienced an emergency admission to hospital.
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4. Understanding Matrices
MAIDeN produces matrices or toolkits which summarise a lot of data. The matrices
use colours instead of presenting numbers.
Often for reasons of confidentiality we can’t disclose the actual data for small areas.
What we do in the matrices is use colours to indicate high, medium or low scores.
Red indicates the top 10%
Amber the next 25% (i.e. in the top 35%)
Green is the rest
In the example matrix below we have shown 4 wards being rated on 3 different
factors which indicate deprivation for older people.
Ward name Total Score Older People Older People Older People
for Older Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3
People
Bridge 1.0 1
Farmlands 0.5 0.5
New River 2.5 1 1 0.5
Woodley 1.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Where a ward is ranked in the top 10% or red it also scores 1, and where it is in the
next 25% it scores 0.5.
By adding up the scores across all the factors we can get a total “older people” score.
We can then put the wards in order of this score to show the wards with the highest
levels of need for older people.
Ward name Total Score Older People Older People Older People
for Older Factor 1 Factor 2 Factor 3
People
New River 2.5 1 1 0.5
Woodley 1.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Bridge 1.0 1
Farmlands 0.5 0.5
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