Background: The CANADA project (CANcer And Deprivation Analyses) had the aim to develop an index or to choose relevant indicators to measure the social deprivation on an area level. Two reasons for such an index are given - first, to do ecological analyses and second to estimate the social deprivation[for full text, please go to the a.m. URL] ; SeriesInformation ; Mainz//2011; 56. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie (gmds), 6. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Epidemiologie (DGEpi)