A new paper from Prof Jon Fairburn with collegaues in Germany. This is largely a technical paper looking at aspects of a German Index of Mutliple Deprivation. However it also considers general aspects of Deprivation indices and some of the approaches that are possible with the weighting of different components.
The article is open access so available to everyone and has a creative commons licence and has been published in BMJ Open Vol 9 Issue 8.