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Targeting Social Need: Why are Deprivation Levels in Northern Ireland Higher for Catholics than for Protestants?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2000

VANI K. BOROOAH
VANI K. BOROOAH
Affiliation:
School of Public Policy, Economics and Law, University of Ulster, Newtownabbey, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB (e-mail: [email protected])
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Abstract

This article addresses two issues. First, using data drawn from the Sample of Anonymised Records of the 1991 Northern Ireland Census, for over 13,000 individuals, it constructs a deprivation index and then, using this index, compares the deprivation levels of Catholics and Protestants. Second, it relates the level of deprivation of the individuals in the sample to their personal characteristics and circumstances. In particular, it examines the possibility that while higher deprivation levels among Catholics may have been partly due to the fact that they possessed, to a greater degree than Protestants, the attributes that were correlated with deprivation, it may also have been the result of Catholics being penalised more harshly than Protestants for possessing these attributes.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Social Policy , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2000 , pp. 281 - 301
Copyright
© 2000 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Thanks are due to Brian Nolan and to two anonymous referees whose comments have substantially improved the article. Research for this paper was carried out while I was Visiting Fellow at The Policy Institute, Trinity College, Dublin and I am grateful to the Institute for providing me with research facilities. The results are based on data from the 1991 Census for Northern Ireland. This data, which is Crown copyright, was kindly made available by the Census Microdata Unit at the Cathy Marsh Centre for Census and Survey Research, University of Manchester, through funding by JISC/ESRC/DENI. However, I alone am responsible for the results reported here, for their interpretation, and, indeed, for any of this article's deficiencies.