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February 2010

Updated UK indicators

  • Underage pregnancies:
    • first and second graphs (over time): the overall number of underage conceptions is similar to a decade ago, although a lower proportion now lead to actual births.
    • fourth graph (by region): the proportion of 16-year-olds with few GCSEs is similar in all of the English regions.
  • Educational attainment at age 16:
    • first and second graphs (over time): 8% of pupils in England obtained fewer than 5 GCSEs in 2008/09, down from 10% in the mid 2000s.  30% obtained fewer than 5 GCSEs at grade C or above, down from 50% a decade previously.
    • fifth graph (by region): the proportion of 16-year-olds with few GCSEs is similar in all of the English regions.
  • Young adult suicides:
    • first graph (over time): the number of suicides amongst young adults aged 15 to 24 has almost halved over the last decade, although that decline now seems to have stopped.
    • second graph (by gender): four-fifths of young adult suicides are males.
    • third graph (young adult deaths more generally): as well as suicides, young men are also much more likely to die from accidents than are young women.
  • Limiting longstanding illness/disability (working age):
    • first and second graphs (over time): a quarter of adults aged 45-64 report a longstanding illness or disability which limits their activity.
    • third graph (by income): two-fifths of all adults aged 45-64 on below-average incomes have a limiting longstanding illness or disability, more than twice the rate for those on above-average incomes.
  • Limiting longstanding illness/disability (older people):
    • first and second graphs (over time): a third of adults aged 65-74, and half of adults aged 75 and over, report a limiting longstanding sickness or disability. Both proportions are similar to a decade ago.
    • third graph (by income): for those aged 65-74, the proportion with a limiting longstanding illness or disability increases as income decreases. The differences by income are less for those aged 75 and over.
  • Anxiety:
    • first graph (over time): among those aged 60 or over, around a quarter of women feel very unsafe out at night, three times the proportion for men, but lower than a decade ago.
    • second graph (by income): among women aged 60 and over, those from lower income households are one and a half times as likely to feel very unsafe out at night as those from higher income households.
  • Without home contents insurance:
    • second graph (over time): households with no home contents insurance are more than three times as likely to be burgled as those with insurance.
  • Overcrowding:
    • first graph (over time): around one in twenty people live in overcrowded conditions, the same as a decade ago.
  • Unmet housing need:
    • first graph (over time): for the first time in a decade, the number of new social housing dwellings in 2007/08 exceeded that required to keep up with demographic change.
  • Victims of crime:
    • fifth graph (worries - by type of adult): households with no home contents insurance are more than three times as likely to be burgled as those with insurance.

Updated Scotland indicators

  • School exclusions:
    • first graph (over time): the number of children permanent excluded each year has fallen sharply in recent years and is now less than 100.

Updated Wales indicators

  • Concentrations of poor children:
    • first graph (over time): almost half of all the primary school children who are eligible for free school meals are concentrated in a fifth of the schools, a similar proportion to a decade ago.
    • first graph (by type of school): poor children are much more concentrated in primary schools than in secondary schools.
    • third graph (by local authority): in some authorities, a third or more of the primary schools have a high proportion of their pupils eligible for free school meals. In other authorities, there are very few such primary schools.
  • Underage pregnancies:
    • first graph (over time): the number of pregnancies to girls conceiving under age 16 is somewhat lower than a decade ago, with all of the reduction having been in births rather than abortions.
    • third graph (compared to Great Britain): the conception rate amongst girls in Wales is higher than in some of Great Britain but lower than in other parts.
  • Educational attainment at age 16:
    • second graph (by deprivation over time): although the gaps are less than a decade ago, GCSE results are still strongly linked with deprivation.
  • Dissatisfaction with local area:
    • second graph (by reason): no reason dominates what people dislike about their local area.
  • Non-participation:
    • first graph (by income): levels of participation in social, political, cultural or community organisations fall as household income falls.
    • second graph (by housing tenure): levels of participation in social, political, cultural or community organisations are higher among owner-occupiers than among renters.

Updated Northern Ireland indicators

  • Educational attainment at age 11:
    • first graph (over time): 11-year-olds in schools with a high proportion receiving free school meals are around one-and-a-half times as likely to fail to reach level 4 at Key Stage 2 as 11-year-olds on average.
    • fourth graph (by deprivation): at schools with above-average levels of deprivation, fewer 11-year-olds in Catholic schools fail to achieve level 4 at Key Stage 2 than 11-year-olds in other schools.
  • Victims of crime:
    • second graph (worries): worries about crime differ substantially by both household income and gender.

Updated rural England indicators

  • Underage pregnancies:
    • first graph (compared with urban): underage pregnancies are much lower in rural districts than in urban districts.
  • Anxiety:
    • first graph (by income): in both rural and urban areas, older women from low-income households are more likely to feel very unsafe out at night than those from higher-income households.
  • Victims of crime:
    • first graph (by tenure): for both rural and urban areas, households in rented accommodation are much more likely to be burgled than owner-occupiers.
    • second graph (by income): for rural households, the risk of being burgled is reasonably similar at all levels of income.

January 2010

New reports

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has published a report on the impact, or otherwise, of devolution on low-income people and places. Underlying that report was our longer report with comparative statistics for the four home countries.

View the overall report as PDF

View the full statistical report as PDF

New features

Any of the pages in the Welsh section can now be translated on the fly into Welsh. I've no idea how good (or bad) the translation is so any feedback would be appreciated.

Updated UK indicators

  • Numbers in low income:
    • fourth graph (compared to Europe): the UK has a higher proportion of its population in relative low income than most other EU countries.
  • Children with a criminal record:
    • first graph (over time): the number of children found guilty for indictable offences fell sharply in 2008, reversing the previously rising trend.
    • second graph (by age - rates): the peak rate for for offending is at age 17.
    • third graph (by age - shares): half of the offences committed by children are committed by those aged 15 or under.
    • fourth graph (by gender): three times as many boys are found guilty of, or cautioned for, indictable offences as girls but the difference is much less for theft and much greater for drug offences.
  • Young adults with a criminal record:
    • first graph (over time): the number of 18- to 20-year-olds found guilty of an indictable offence fell between 1999 and 2004 but has remained broadly unchanged since then.
  • Low income and disability:
    • fourth graph (compared to Europe): the proportion of economically inactive working-age adults who are in relative low income is higher in the UK than in any other EU country.
  • Working-age longstanding illness/disability:
    • fourth graph (by social class): adults aged 45-64 in routine and manual occupational groups are much more likely to have a limiting longstanding illness or disability than those from non-manual groups.
  • Older people longstanding illness/disability:
    • fourth graph (by social class): those aged 65 and over who had routine or manual jobs are somewhat more likely to suffer a longstanding illness or disability than those with non-manual work histories.

Updated Wales indicators

  • Longstanding illness/disability:
    • first graph (by age and social class): at all ages, adults in routine and manual occupational groups are somewhat more likely to have a limiting longstanding illness than those from other occupational groups.

Updated European indicators

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