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Alternative Titles / Acronym

• BIMD

Trefwoorden

Belgium bimd crime geographical health inequality multiple-deprivation sciensano Social socio-economic statistical sector +3 meer

Talen

ENG

Health Categories

Data on factors impacting on health, including socio-economic, environmental and behavioural determinants of health Population-based health data registries (public health registries)

Population Coverage

The BIMD covers the whole of Belgium. The underlying indicators represent all persons officially residing in Belgium at the reference period when computed over multiple years or at the time of the census. Thus, individuals who lived in Belgium and were not officially registered were not included in the underlying indicators.

Purposes

• The BIMD can be used to investigate geographical inequalities in relative deprivation in one composite indicator or in six domains (education, income, employment, housing, crime and health) in Belgium.

Provenance

• The data for the BIMD is sourced from several existing databases. The income, employment, education, and housing domains build on the demographic database produced by Statbel. This data sources includes pseudonymized information from the 2001 and 2011 Belgian population censuses, data from the National Register on all-cause mortality and population structure, and data on cause-specific mortality from death certificates. The database covers all persons officially residing in Belgium at the reference period when computed over multiple years or at the time of the census. Thus, individuals who lived in Belgium and were not officially registered were not included in our datasets. In addition, aggregated data on the proportion of households below the minimum living wage at the statistical level, included in the income domains for 2001 and 2011, were obtained from Statbel. The employment domain for 2011 is also based on an indicator of the proportion of health insurance beneficiaries (aged 20–64) who received long-term disability benefits utilizing data from the Intermutualistic Agency (IMA). The crime domain builds on counts of criminal crimes that occurred between 1 January 2001 and 31 December 2001, aggregated at the level of municipality, were provided by the Directorate of Police Information and ICT Resources of the Federal Police Belgium. For more information on the data sources and methodology, please consult: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877584523000242?via%3Dihub

Landing Pages

• https://github.com/sciensanogit/bimd

Documentation

• https://bimd.sciensano.be/tool/
• https://github.com/sciensanogit/bimd
• https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877584523000242?via%253Dihub