Abstract: Deprivation means lack of access to resources; it can be either lack of material resources or social resources. A poor household can be deprived in multiple levels and may be suffering from multiple disadvantages then a household which is not relatively deprived. Therefore, it is not only important to construct an index for measuring deprivation but it is equally important to identify the areas of deprivations at a micro-level in an urban area. In India, an urban area is divided into numerous small electoral units called as wards; the different data related to housing and socio-economic conditions for the urban areas are provided at the ward wise level by The Census of India report. This study uses the ward level data derived from the Primary Census Abstract (PCA), 2011 and House Listing Primary Census Abstract (HPCA), 2011 to construct indices of deprivation by using Principal Component Analysis.........
Keywords:- Deprivation, Darjeeling Himalaya, Principal Component Analysis, Composite Index.
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