The Townsend Index measures multiple deprivation by area. The score is calculated by combining four 1991 census variables (the higher the number, the greater the measure of deprivation): 1. Unemployment - unemployed residents over 16 as a percentage of all economically active residents aged over ...
An index of social deprivation developed by the British social scientist Peter Townsend (b.1928), used mainly in the United Kingdom; based on numbers economically active but unemployed, households with no car, households not owner-occupied, households overcrowded. The Townsend score uses readily ava...
Spatial distribution of Townsend deprivation index by cantons, 2009.Florent, OccelliAnnabelle, DeramMichaël, GéninChristian, NoëlDamien, CunyFrançois, Glowacki
N. Resource use and depriva on: geographical analysis of the ecological footprint and town send index for England. Sustainability, v. 6, n. 8. p. 4749-71, 2014.Morse, S.; Vogiatzakis, I.N. Resource Use and Deprivation: Geographical Analysis of the Ecological Footprint and Townsend ...
Sustainability 2014, 6 4750 Keywords: Ecological Footprint; Townsend Index of Deprivation; Human Development Index; England 1. Introduction Sustainable development has long been articulated as having three overlapping concerns of the environment, community and economics. The overlap is important as it ...