Employment Deprivation

Employment deprivation across Glasgow City Region

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Despite recent reductions in deprivation in the city, Glasgow still has the second highest level of employment deprivation (13.3%) among the the eight local authorities in Glasgow City Region; Inverclyde has the highest level of employment deprivation (14.3%). The lowest rates of employment deprivation in GCR are in East Renfrewshire (5.6%) and in East Dunbartonshire (6.2%).

Notes

Employment deprivation, as defined by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), is a measure of the percentage of the working age population (men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-60) who are on the claimant count, receive Incapacity Benefit, Employment and Support Allowance, or Severe Disablement Allowance.

SIMD – Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation provides a relative measure of deprivation based on indicators from 7 domains – income, employment, health, education, access, housing, crime. The index identifies multiple deprivation for 6505 small areas (data zones) across Scotland.  There have been five versions of SIMD to date. The initial index of 2004 (SIMD 2004) has been revised four times in 2006 (SIMD 2006), 2009 (SIMD 2009), 2012 (SIMD 2012) and 2016 (SIMD 2016).  For more information go to the SIMD site.