Employment Deprivation

Employment deprivation across Scottish Cities

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Despite recent reductions in deprivation in the city, Glasgow still has a higher level of employment deprivation than the other large Scottish cities. In Glasgow, 13.3% of the of the working age population are living in employment deprivation compared to 12.4% in Dundee, 7.1% in Aberdeen and 6.6% in Edinburgh. The Scottish average was 9.3%. 

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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 five times in 2006 (SIMD 2006), 2009 (SIMD 2009), 2012 (SIMD 2012), 2016 (SIMD 2016) and 2020 (SIMD 2020). More information is available on the SIMD site.