beveradb
commented
5 years ago Thanks for the links, that report is awesome! It would be really cool to work through that and see which countries have a public shapefile (the most common/popular geospatial data format) for this data and add support for more of the EU!
For the netherlands that dataset looks pretty much directly comparable, and it is indeed public data - I googled "leefbaarometer shapefile" and downloaded "Wijk2016.zip" from https://data.overheid.nl/dataset/leefbaarometer-2-0---meting-2016
It wouldn't be too hard to add that shapefile to this tool, probably only an hour or two of effort - I'll maybe do so in a bit, but currently focused on a couple of other priority issues first! (PRs welcome of course 😉)
I was wondering whether other countries (in the EU) have a similar index to the UK's Index of Multiple Deprivations. I found a report from 2018 which lists out the countries that do this, or otherwise how one can derive useful information to do this; see attached.
As an example, the Netherlands provides IMD-like data via the webportal https://www.leefbaarometer.nl. This certainly looks promising in regards to scaling the scope of the app to include other EU countries.
I have not checked though what the licensing conditions are for any of the data, or whether it is even publicly accessible (as raw data).