Choice of Model
			In 2000, the Department of the Environment, Transport and Regions (DETR), London, published the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000 (IMD) for England on 22 August 2000 (Government of West Midlands, 2001). The 2000 rendition replaced the original DETR IMD of 1998. Although the index was originally intended to model the deprivation in England at both ward and local authority district levels, we transformed the index to work with the British Columbia Beyond 20/20 census data.
			The DETR index was chosen because of the importance of education in its weighing criteria. As well, it is a recently developed deprivation index. The literature review provided us with three influential resources to use as a guideline for assigning the deprivation index to the GVRD (Hamard, 2001; Langlois, 2001; Senior, 2002).
			The specifications for assigning the DETR IMD 2000 were based on work done by Hamard for the Bradford District, England. We also sought to validate our statistical processes through reviewing literature that indicated how to standardize census data in order to diagnose the pockets of subpopulations that we wished to exemplify (Langlois, 2001; Senior, 2002). The process ultimately led us to conclude that there is no easy way to measure deprivation, but that there are some standard methods for quantifying the distribution of factors to assess population health.