German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD)

The German Index of Socioeconomic Deprivation (GISD) is an index developed at the Robert Koch Institute to measure regional socioeconomic disadvantage. It is used to highlight regional socio-economic inequalities in health and to identify starting points for explaining regional differences in health. The GISD makes it possible to investigate socio-economic differences in health chances, disease and death risks in Germany even if the relevant health data do not contain information on socio-economic status at the individual level. Information on the education, employment and income situation in districts and municipalities from the INKAR database is used to generate the GISD. It is generated at the level of the municipalities and is provided for the spatial references municipalities, municipal associations, urban and rural districts, spatial planning regions, NUTS 2 and postcode areas in a population-weighted aggregated manner. The weighting of the indicators is carried out via main component analyses within the subdimensions. The currently available data refer to the area as at 31.12.2019 and contain values from 1998 to 2019.</p>