Table 3

Pearson correlation coefficients for the relation between deprivation, mortality, and morbidity

ONS*	Number of wards	Townsend score	IMD†	Income domain	Employment domain	Health domain	Education domain	Housing domain	Access domain
*Office for National Statistics classification of rural and urban wards; †Index of Multiple Deprivation 2000.
			Premature mortality
Rural	253	0.144	0.163	0.148	0.164	0.180	0.036	0.131	0.010
Rural fringe	154	0.215	0.171	0.196	0.137	0.145	−0.029	0.169	−0.073
Urban	1031	0.608	0.509	0.502	0.453	0.198	0.424	0.487	−0.418
All wards	1448	0.533	0.439	0.440	0.397	0.413	0.340	0.410	−0.323
			Premature limiting long term illness
Rural	253	0.199	0.669	0.605	0.664	0.700	0.411	0.241	0.040
Rural fringe	154	0.207	0.468	0.346	0.410	0.625	0.192	0.282	0.102
Urban	1031	0.823	0.822	0.811	0.749	0.800	0.620	0.627	−0.470
All wards	1448	0.763	0.786	0.775	0.726	0.781	0.578	0.565	−0.387