Version: 1.0.3 | Published: 21 May 2025 | Updated: 9 days ago
Priority Places for Food Index V2.1
Dataset
Summary
Documentation
Associated Media:
Description:
The Priority Places for Food Index (https://priorityplaces.cdrc. ac.uk/) is constructed using open data to capture complex and multidimensional aspects of food insecurity risk. The index was initially developed in response to the 2022 cost of living crisis which has put many of our communities under severe financial pressure and at an increased risk of food insecurity. Building on the CDRC e-food desert index (EFDI), but with additional do- mains relating to fuel poverty and family food support, the goal of the Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI) is to identify neighbourhoods that are most vulnerable to increases in the cost of living and which have a lack of accessibility to cheap, healthy, and sustainable sources of food. The PPFI is a composite index formed of data compiled across seven different dimensions relating to food insecurity risk for the four nations in the UK. This version (Version 2.1, July 2024) reflects changes to the data and policy landscape which are detailed in the user guide
Is Part Of:
Priority Places for Food Index data
How Published:
Data asset provided by the Healthy & Sustainable Places Data Service (Grant
number), originally produced by the CDRC (ES/L011840/1;ES/L011891/1)
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Units:
- Lower Super Output Areas (2021) - England & Wales
- Data Zones (2011) – Scotland
- Super Output Areas (2011) - Northern Ireland
Spatial Coverage:
UK: England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
Temporal
Frequency:
IRREGULAR
Date of Latest Release:
14 July 2024
Date of First Release:
22 January 2024
Temporal Aggregation:
Snapshot in time.
Geographic Bounding Box
Lower Left Latitude:
-8.6
Lower Left Longitude:
49.9
Upper Right Latitude:
2.2
Upper Right Longitude:
61.0
Provenance
Source:
- Administrative data
- Crowdsourced data
- Web-scraped data
Purpose:
Data were originally collected for administrative purposes.
Collection Status:
Complete
Method of Collection:
Open data were used in combination with web-scraped data from Newing et al.
combined using an index calculation to determine food insecurity risk across
seven domains: Data availability differed by country and is indicated in
brackets. Proximity to supermarket retail facilities - Average distance to
nearest large grocery store (Geolytix Retail Points v28). E,S,W,NI - Average
count of stores within 1km (Geolytix Retail Points v28). E,S,W,NI Accessibility
to supermarket retail facilities - Average travel distance (based on a custom
built spatial in- interaction model). E,S,W - Accessibility via public transport
(Govt Journey Time Statis- tics 2019). E,S,W Access to online deliveries (12.5%
of composite index) - Online groceries availability (Newing et. al, 2020). E,S,W
- Propensity to shop online(CDRC Internet User Classification 2018). E,S,W
Proximity to non-supermarket food provision - Distance to nearest
non-supermarket retail food store(Food Standards Agency, accessed 2023-11-02 and
Geolytix Retail Points v28). E,S,W,NI - Count of non-supermarket retail food
stores within 1km (Food Standards Agency, accessed 2023-11-02). E,S,W,NI -
Average distance to nearest market (CDRC data from National Market Traders
Federation 2016-2019). E,W. - Average count of markets within 1km (CDRC data
from National Market Traders Federation 2016-2019). E,W Socio-demographic
barriers - Proportion of population experiencing income deprivation (UK Govt
Index of Multiple Deprivation 2017-2020). E,S,W,NI - Proportion of population
with no car access (UK Census 2021). E,S,W,NI Need for family food support -
Children in relative low-income families (Department for Work and Pensions,
2022). E,S,W,NI - Healthy start voucher uptake (Averaged Jan-June 2023 uptake)
E,W. - Distance to nearest food bank (Food Standards Agency, accessed 2023-11-02
and Give Food, accessed 2023-11-02). E,S,W,NI Fuel Poverty - Proportion of
households in fuel poverty (2017 - 2020). E,S,W. - Prepayment meter prevalence,
2017. E,S,W"
Weighting:
Each domain within the Index was weighted as follows so that the food shop
access domains (1-4) and affordability barriers (5-7) are equally weighted: 1.
Proximity to supermarket retail facilities (12.5% of composite index) 2.
Accessibility to supermarket retail facilities (12.5% of composite index) 3.
Access to online deliveries (12.5% of composite index) 4. Proximity to
non-supermarket food provision (12.5% of composite index) 5. Socio-demographic
barriers (16.7% of composite index) 6. Need for family food support (16.7% of
composite index) 7. Fuel Poverty (16.7% of composite index)
Access and Governance
Usage
Resource Creator:
Fran Pontin (https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7143-8718)
Data Use Requirements:
NO REQUIREMENTS
Access
Jurisdiction:
Great Britain
Data Controller:
Healthy and Sustainable Places Data Service
Availability Status:
Active
Licence:
UK Open Government Licence V3 (OGL)
Format and Standards
Language:
English
File Format:
.csv
Estimated Dataset Size:
25MB-1GB
Enrichment and Linkage
Linkage Opportunity:
Join to LSOA21CD census data
Origin
Name:
Data Catalogue