§ 59. Mrs. Bainasked the Secretary of State for the Environment if he will undertake to institute a survey of rural deprivation on the same basis as the survey "Census Indicators of Urban Deprivation."
§ Mr. FreesonAn exercise on a similar basis to the work on "Census indicators of Urban Deprivation" has been done for rural districts of England and Wales. A copy of a paper describing this work has been placed in the Library. However, the techniques used in the urban study do not seem so readily applicable to rural areas and it is doubtful whether the results will have great potential for use in the decision-making process.