Wednesday, 6 February 2013

Deprivation - an urban issue?

via Centre for Cities by Rachel Smith

There are almost 122,200 very deprived households in England and Wales.

Yesterday [30 January 2013], another slew of Census data was released. This included statistics on deprived households measured across four different factors: levels employment, education, and health and disability as well as quality of housing.

To some extent the data tells us what we already knew; a disproportionate number of England and Wales’ very deprived households – those counted as deprived on all four of the factors listed above – can be found in cities.

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