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The indicators in this section were designed to provide a simple indicator of the characteristics of an area, and of the similarity between areas, for comparison or targeting purposes, and as a variable for analysis with other data and to provide a measure of deprivation at local level.
The number of people claiming key benefits (JSA, IB, SDA, IS) as a percentage of the population of working age. Please note that although people can claim more than one benefit, these data have been modified to count each person only once, therefore they are a measure of the number of people claiming...
The English Indices of Deprivation are the Government’s official relative measure of multiple deprivation in small areas across England called Lower layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs).