CAMEO Welfare - understanding and assessing social deprivation

Social deprivation affects a significant proportion of the UK population. Understanding which consumers are affected and to what extent can have a dramatic impact on targeting strategy.

CAMEO Welfare is a unique, reliable and comprehensive indicator of poverty throughout the UK. It draws on a range of Government statistics and in-depth postcode level datasets to assess every UK neighbourhood; enabling better customer understanding and more accurate prospect screening.

CAMEO Welfare provides a key differentiator - segmenting consumers by levels of deprivation across cities, towns and rural areas. Within these geographical areas the classification drills down into 28 groups, where 28 is the most disadvantaged and 1 is the least.

Each segment takes into account a range of factors that contribute to poverty and deprivation including:

  • Quality of environment
  • Levels of crime
  • General health
  • Levels of unemployment
  • Educational attainment
  • Income levels

CAMEO Welfare can be used in isolation or to enhance targeting selections from the other CAMEO Classifications.