General description

The employment deprivation indicator is calculated from a count of individuals in receipt of:
- Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
- Incapacity Benefit
- Universal Credit (and not in employment)


Claimants of multiple benefits are only counted once.
This indicator is expressed as a percentage of the working age population for each geography group.

Rounding applied

Disclosure control is applied by the Department of Work and Pensions.

Statistical quality

For the information relating to statistical quality please see the WIMD 2014 Technical Report and the WIMD 2014 Publication on the weblinks tab.

Weblinks

The WIMD webpage: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/welsh-index-multiple-deprivation/?lang=en
The WIMD indicators webpage: http://gov.wales/statistics-and-research/welsh-index-multiple-deprivation-indicator-data/?lang=en
The WIMD 2014 Publication: http://gov.wales/docs/statistics/2014/141126-wimd-2014-en.pdf
The WIMD 2014 Technical report http://gov.wales/docs/statistics/2014/141218-wimd-2014-technical-en.pdf
WIMD: A guide to analysing indicator data: http://gov.wales/docs/statistics/2017/170413-wimd-indicator-data-guidance-en.pdf

Keywords

WIMD 2014; Multiple Deprivation; Deprivation; Social Inclusion; Indicators; LA; Local Authority; Income; Employment; Health; Education; Community Safety; Housing; Physical Environment; Access to Services

Title

Employment deprivation data - Built-Up Area

Last update

13 December 2017 13 December 2017

Next update

TBC

Publishing organisation

Welsh Government

Source 1

Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation, Welsh Government

Contact email

stats.inclusion@gov.wales

Designation

National Statistics

Geographical coverage

Wales

Languages covered

English and Welsh

Data licensing

You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence

Name

WIMD0041