Child Poverty
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Child Poverty
Three products have been created to assist the understanding and analysis of Child Poverty. We welcome feedback on these products - please email better.info@ons.gov.uk with your comments.
Topic Profile
The Topic Profile provides an introduction to child poverty, with guidance and signposting to official statistics for measuring and understanding the topic. Simple analysis is provided for different geographies using headline indicators.
The Topic Profile can be downloaded here:
Child Poverty Topic Profile PDF (1.07mb)
Local Profile
A new theme of Child Poverty has been added to the Local Profiles interactive tool.
The Child Poverty Local Profile is an automated tool for all upper and lower tier authorities in England containing up-to-date published data. Maps, tables, charts and analytical text are produced using agreed indicators, to provide better understanding of child poverty in your selected areas. Regional, National and comparator figures are presented where available.
Other themes within the Local Profiles CD include Employment, Skills, Housing, Inclusion, Demography, Environment, Economic Context and Enterprise. Over one thousand variables are included in these profiles which can also assist the contextual analysis of Child Poverty.
For more information please see the Local Profiles homepage.
To get a copy of the CD please email better.info@ons.gov.uk and quote 'CP1'. Please do not forget to supply the postal address to which you want the CD to be sent.
Case Study
The case study examines data from the Local Profiles to show information on children, children in poverty, and contextual data for the two local authority areas of Nottingham and Rushcliffe, and shows how to use the data for more detailed geographies within these two areas. The case study is intended to show:
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How the Local Profiles can be used to analyse data for an area
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The relationship between different economic and social factors which relate to children
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How the data at LSOA level might contribute to an understanding of where there are a high percentage of children and where children live who are considered to be in poverty
The Case Study can be downloaded here: Child Poverty Case Study PDF (1.66mb)
