# The Local Government (Rates Support Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011, Paragraph 7: Population Adjustment Methodology


The Department shall adjust population to address—
(a) deprivation in a local government district, by taking the following steps—
(i) application of the employment scores with a 50 percent weighting and income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that community services expenditure is to total expenditure;
(ii) application of the employment scores with a 100 percent weighting, making an adjustment for each of the proportion that economic development expenditure is to total expenditure;
(iii) application of the income scores with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;
(b) an influx of additional population into a local government district, by taking the following steps—
(i) application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that tourism expenditure is to total expenditure;
(ii) application of tourist bed-nights factors with a 50 percent weighting and travel to work factors with a 50 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that other cleaning expenditure is to total expenditure; and
(c) sparsity in a local government district, by taking the following step—
application of mid-year population density data with a 25 percent weighting and private household data with a 75 percent weighting, making an adjustment of the proportion that waste collection expenditure is to total expenditure.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nidsr/2011/9780337985379/schedule/1/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-local-government-rates-support-grant-regulations-northern-ireland-2011/schedule-1/paragraph-7
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