The income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) is an index of deprivation used in the United Kingdom. The index is calculated by the

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and measures in a local area the proportion of children under the age of 16 that live in low income households. The local areas for which the index is calculated are

super output area GSS codes are nine-character geocodes maintained by the United Kingdom's Office for National Statistics (ONS) to represent a wide range of geographical areas of the UK, for use in tabulating census and other statistical data. GSS refers to the ...

s. It is supplementary to the

Indices of Multiple Deprivation Indices of multiple deprivation (IMD) are widely-used datasets within the UK to classify the relative deprivation (essentially a measure of poverty) of small areas. Multiple components of deprivation are weighted with different strengths and compil ...

and is used for calculation of the

contextual value added Contextual value added (CVA) is a statistic that was used by the government of the United Kingdom to assess the performance of schools. It was superseded by expected progress and then Progress 8 The statistic is intended to show the progress chil ...

score, measuring children's educational progress.DCSF, Technical Annex: How is a contextual value added score for a pupil calculated?
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DCSF Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) was a department of the UK government, between 2007 and 2010, responsible for issues affecting people in England up to the age of 19, including child protection and education. DCSF was rep ...

website allowing IDACI to be looked up by

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