Index of multiple deprivation quantiles in Jersey

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We currently get IMD quantiles from our own service which accepts a postcode across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and returns country-specific quantiles. It does not accept Jersey postcodes, since the reference data for IMD does not cover Jersey. Jersey released some data based on its census of 2021 here and makes interesting reading. In the 10 years from 2011, deprivation has fallen, completely the opposite of England who introduced austerity measures in 2010. There are more old people in Jersey, and more people now have cars, fewer have children under 5 y, more have qualifications and their own home. Interestingly more are single parents. Because the population is small (~100,000), IMD is reported in vingtaines, rather than quintiles or deciles. The actual data is not published (at least that I can see) be we could contact Ian Cope (Chief Statistician | [email protected]) potentially to ask if we may have it. I should have thought a simple look up could be hard coded into E12, though ideally we would include this in the RCPCH Census Platform. For the moment, we get a 500 error (which needs fixing) and this is trapped in a try..except so that no value is stored.

To address this issue we need:

1. access to the IMD raw scores
2. update the RCPCH Census Platform with these

For this we need first to address the postcode issue, as this would be needed to identify the child's location to report the IMD for the region they live in