English Explanatory Dictionary

Townsend deprivation index

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A measure of material deprivation within a population, based on four variables: unemployment, non-car ownership, non-home ownership, and household overcrowding.

Word forms

Townsend deprivation index

Etymology

First described by sociologist Peter Townsend in 1988.

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