in an urban policy environment characterised by high levels of uncertainty such indicators and targets can provide a tool for identifying the specific assets for development in different communities and maximising a city s potential for overall progress more than separate indicators across administrative survey and census data sources span seven domains of deprivation employment income health crime education living environment and barriers to services the imd were initially built at the district ward level in then at the smaller scale of lowerlayer superoutput areas of roughly residents in and most of the statistics used in the latest edition are from and new indices were expected to be produced in