Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Every few years, there is a buzz of excitement and something of a media frenzy surrounding the publication of new deprivation indices for England, with similar datasets published to different timetables for the rest of the UK.Some of this is ill advised, and occasionally in bad taste, with newspapers sending reporters and photographers to document the 'worst' or 'poorest' parts of the country.The old adage that 'what gets measured gets managed' is in the case of the English Indices of Deprivation at times more like 'what gets measured gets mocked'.
Source: People Place and Policy Online
Author: Alasdair Rae
Institution: University of Sheffield
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W3034195409