Changing Fortunes: Geographic Patterns of Income Deprivation in the Late 1990sThis report is based on research commissioned by the Social Exclusion Unit from a team of researchers from Oxford University and the London School of Economics. Income deprivation was evaluated based on DSS local area-based claimant estimates for England 1995-1998, for Income Support (IS) and income-based Jobseeker's Allowance (JSA-IB). The overall number of claimants for IS and JSA-IB fell from 4.9 million (1995) to 4.1 million (1998), and at the same time the overall claim rate fell from 12.7% to 10.5%. The greatest fall in claimant numbers was among the unemployed, but falls were more modest for people aged 60 and above and for lone parents, and there was a small rise in claimant numbers among the disabled/other group. The fall in claimant numbers and rates occurred across all regions of England, but some high-cliaming areas remain. London had the highest rate of benefit claiming in 1995 but, along with the South East, experienced the greatest decline by 1998. The lowest rates of decline in claimant rates was found in the North West, North East, and Yorkshire and Humberside. |
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16 living 1995 claim rate 1995 IS claimants 1995 unemployed aged 60 aged under 16 Authority Districts Blackburn with Darwen Children under 162 claim rate 1995 claimant group claimant numbers claimant population claimants in 1998 decile decline Destinations of 1995 disabled/other group District Rate East Midlands Excluding the Isles families claiming IS/JSA-IB Figure Hackney Haringey highest claim rates highest districts IS/JSA-IB benefit group IS/JSA-IB benefits Moved IS/JSA-IB claim rates IS/JSA-IB claimants Isles of Scilly JSA-IB IS rate Kingston upon Hull Knowsley Lambeth Liverpool living in families Lone Parent Disabled Merseyside Middlesbrough Newcastle upon Tyne Newham North East number of claimants overall claim rate Parent Lone Parent percentage points Ranked by 1995 rate 1995 rate Rate 95 rate claim rate rate IS rate rates for IS/JSA-IB rates of claim Redcar and Cleveland region shows Status in 1998 Status in Status Thanet Tower Hamlets unemployed claimants unemployment ward level wards in England