How much of the difference in life expectancy between Scottish cities does deprivation explain?

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Table 1 Comparability of Glasgow and Aberdeen, Dundee and Edinburgh combined when ranking datazones by national income deprivation

	Number of datazones (as % of datazones by location) (SIMD 2009+2)				Mean income rank^a (SIMD 2009+2)		Number of income deprived people (as % of population by location) (SIMD 2009+2)				5 year population estimates (as % of population by location) (2007–2011)				5 year number of deaths (as % of population by location by decile) (2007–2011)
Decile	Glasgow		ADE		Glasgow	ADE	Glasgow		ADE		Glasgow		ADE		Glasgow		ADE
1(most dep.)	250	36	90	9	276	352	85780	55	28860	25	1,019,818	35	379,813	9	13830	1.4	4042	1.1
2	117	17	79	8	1008	1064	29205	19	17530	15	490,534	17	312,351	8	6821	1.4	4001	1.3
3	67	10	83	8	1701	1688	12515	8	15015	13	268,686	9	330,483	8	3454	1.3	4238	1.3
4	64	9	75	8	2401	2377	10230	7	11975	10	276,051	9	328,472	8	2395	0.9	3536	1.1
5	48	7	75	8	2978	3028	6380	4	9620	8	206,085	7	322,430	8	1719	0.8	3127	1.0
6	46	7	84	8	3649	3688	5160	3	8275	7	210,745	7	345,477	8	1693	0.8	3447	1.0
7	34	5	82	8	4349	4323	2680	2	6610	6	144,076	5	348,543	8	1033	0.7	3244	0.9
8	34	5	96	10	4923	4924	2170	1	5815	5	146,469	5	404,898	10	864	0.6	3903	1.0
9	22	3	124	12	5581	5604	1045	<1	5125	5	103,240	4	500,688	12	726	0.7	3884	0.8
10(least dep.)	12	2	207	21	6092	6242	355	<1	4645	4	43,436	1	864,635	21	276	0.6	6081	0.7
Total	694	100	995	100	1839	3804	155520	100	113470	100	2,909,140	100	4,137,790	100	32811	1.1	39503	1.0

Data obtained and available on request from National Records of Scotland, http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/
^aThe mean income rank is the average ranking of all datazones included in each decile. E.g. the sum of all datazones rankings divided by the number of datazones in that decile

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