Creating and using proxy measures of socioeconomic background in LEO

In this webinar Peter Urwin, Director at the Centre for Employment Research at the University of Westminster and Dave Thomson, Chief Statistician at FFT Datalab explain how Free School Meal (FSM) indicators and the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) are created and used within LEO to measure socioeconomic background, providing practical guidance on creating these measures and illustrating insights from research using ILR and NPD data to examine patterns of educational attainment.