Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

IMD (development version)

• Added subdomain data for England’s 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2015 Indices of Deprivation

IMD 2.0.0

Breaking changes

• Renamed all data files for clarity and consistency (breaking change)

New features

• Added English Indices of Deprivation 2025
• Added historical Indices of Multiple Deprivation for all nations
• Updated Left-Behind Neighbourhoods flag in England’s Community Need Index to reflect new deprivation index

IMD 1.2.2

CRAN release: 2022-09-30

• Updated list of Left Behind Areas to match latest OCSI data
• Moved repo to the Humaniverse suite of packages: https://github.com/humaniverse/IMD

IMD 1.2.1

CRAN release: 2022-09-02

• Added Community Needs Index

IMD 1.1.0

• Added dataset: sub-domains of deprivation for Lower Layer Super Output Areas, Middle Layer Super Output Areas, wards, and Local Authorities in England
• Added population-weighted average scores for Welsh MSOAs

IMD 1.0.3

• Removed Imports that aren’t used in the published package

IMD 1.0.2

CRAN release: 2021-08-10

• Removed examples from documentation for un-exported functions

IMD 1.0.1

• Fixed R CMD check note for no visible bindings for global variables
• Updated Description to fix R CMD check notes
• Updated data documentation to fix R CMD check notes
• Updated license files, so Open Government License is now in LICENSE.note

IMD 1.0.0

• Added load_composite_imd to access mySociety’s Composite Index of Multiple Deprivation data
• Updated LICENSE to include Open Government License
• Added NEWS.md to track changes to the package

IMD 0.1.0

• Added all IMD datasets for small areas and higher-level geographies