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Estimating Small Area Income Deprivation: An Iterative Proportional Fitting Approach
Small area estimation and in particular the estimation of small area income deprivation has
potential value in the development of new or alternative components of multiple deprivation
indices. These new approaches enable the development of income distribution threshold based
as opposed to benefit count based measures of income deprivation and so enable the
alignment of regional and national measures such as the Households Below Average Income
with small area measures. This paper briefly reviews a number of approaches to small area
estimation before describing in some detail an iterative proportional fitting based spatial
microsimulation approach. This approach is then applied to the estimation of small area HBAI
rates at the small area level in Wales in 2003-5. The paper discusses the results of this
approach, contrasts them with contemporary ‘official’ income deprivation measures for the
same areas and describes a range of ways to assess the robustness of the results
Crystal structure of ferroelectric glycine silver nitrate
An x-ray structural anal. indicates that glycine Ag nitrate crystallizes in the monoclinic space group P21/a: a 5.451, b 19.493, c 5.541 .ANG., and b 100 Deg 12'; Z = 4. Below the Curie point, the a-glide vanishes and the space group is P21. The cell dimensions at -140 Deg are a 5.362, b 19.391, c 5.536 .ANG., and b 100 Deg 12'