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Priority Places for Food Index V2.1

Dataset

Summary

Short Description:

The Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI) is constructed using open data to capture complex and multidimensional aspects that make an area a priority place for food.

DOI Name:

https://doi.org/10.82147/003

Data Citation:

Pontin, F., Oldroyd, R., Baudains, P., Ennis, E., Newing, A., & Morris, M. A. (2024) "Priority Places for Food Index" (Version 2.1). Data asset provided by the Healthy & Sustainable Places Data Service (ES/Z504336/1); originally produced by the CDRC (ES/L011840/1; ES/L011891/1). DOI:10.82147/003

Alternative Name:

PPFI

Tier:

Tier 0

Access Type:

Open

Theme:

Health
Place

Documentation

Associated Media:

https://priorityplaces.hasp.ac.uk

https://leeds-hasp.github.io/data-docs/Priority%20Places%20for%20Food%20Index%20V2.1/2_PPFI_user_guide.html

Description:

The Priority Places for Food Index (PPFI) is a composite index constructed using open data to capture complex and multidimensional aspects that make an area a priority place for food. It was initially developed in response to the 2022 Cost of Living Crisis, which placed many communities under severe financial pressure and limited access to cheap, healthy, and sustainable sources of food. Building on the E-Food Desert Index, and with additional domains relating to fuel poverty and family food support, PPFI identifies neighbourhoods that are most vulnerable to increases in the cost of living and which have limited accessibility to nutritious and sustainable food options. This dataset was previously hosted by the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC) - this dataset is the same as CDRC V2.1. For a list of the tables and columns/fields included in this dataset, please see the Data Dictionary in the menu on the left hand side.

Is Part Of:

N/A

How Published:

Data asset provided by the Healthy & Sustainable Places Data Service (ES/Z504336/1), originally produced by the CDRC (ES/L011840/1; ES/L011891/1).

Coverage

Spatial

Spatial Units:

Lower Super Output Areas (2021)
Data Zones (2022)

Spatial Coverage:

Great Britain

Temporal

Frequency:

STATIC

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:

49.9

Lower Left Longitude:

-8.6

Upper Right Latitude:

61.0

Upper Right Longitude:

2.2

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 interaction model); E,S,W - Accessibility via public transport (Govt. Journey Time Statistics 2019). E,S,W Access to online deliveries: - 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).