Portuguese version of the European Deprivation Index (version 2001)

The European Deprivation Index was developed under the Townsend theorization of deprivation. Using data from the European Union - Statistics on Income and Living Conditions Survey, we obtained an indicator of individual deprivation. This indicator became the gold-standard variable, based on what we selected the variables at aggregate level (census 2001) to be included in the European Deprivation Index, a total of eight. The European Deprivation Index was produced for the smallest area unit possible (n = 16 094, mean/area = 643 inhabitants), parish level and municipality level, and resulted from the weighted sum of the previous variables. It was then classified into quintiles.More details here:Ribeiro, A. I., Mayer, A., Miranda, A., & Pina, M. F. (2017). The Portuguese Version of the European Deprivation Index: An Instrument to Study Health Inequalities. Acta Med Port, 30(1), 17-25. Guillaume, E., Pornet, C., Dejardin, O., Launay, L., Lillini, R., Vercelli, M., . . . Launoy, G. (2016). Development of a cross-cultural deprivation index in five European countries. Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, 70(5), 493-499. doi:10.1136/jech-2015-205729