League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010?

Nolan, Michael A.; Reynolds, Michael; Trotter, Stephen

Abstract

This paper seeks to provide further evidence about ‘league table’ orderings for deprivation in local areas, especially for two domains – employment and education – which seem likely to be closely related. Rather than relying solely on administrative Local Authority areas and functional economic areas, our focus is to refine the concentric banding approach introduced in Nolan et al. (Local Economy 27(4): 403–418, 2012), and to apply it throughout England. We also introduce two new procedures by which areas might be systematically split into smaller components. The spatial distributions of employment and education deprivation turn out to be quite different (and distinct from the spatial distribution of overall deprivation). Throughout, there is clear evidence that it matters what size of local area is considered.

Citation

Nolan, M. A., Reynolds, M., & Trotter, S. (2020). League tables and concentric banding: how similar are the employment and education domains of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2010?. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 13(1), 257-288. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09302-w

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 1, 2019
• Online Publication Date: May 18, 2019
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2020
• Deposit Date: Jun 11, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 12, 2019
• Journal: Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
• Print ISSN: 1874-463X
• Publisher: Springer (part of Springer Nature)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 13
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 257-288
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-019-09302-w
• Keywords: Spatial unit; Areal unit; League table; Employment deprivation; Education deprivation
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/1972471
• Publisher URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12061-019-09302-w
• Additional Information: Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
• Contract Date: Jun 12, 2019