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Narrowing the gap?
— the trajectory of England's poor neighbourhoods, 1991-2001 | | Author(s) | Alan Berube |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, 2005 |
| Pages | 19 pp (CASE-Brookings Census Briefs, no 4) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Neighbourhoods, communities etc ; Census ; Indicators ; Longitudinal surveys ; England. |
| Annotation | This paper uses data from the 1991 and 2001 Censuses, and geographical information systems (GIS) analysis, to analyse what happened during the 1990s to a collection of neighbourhoods in England identified as "poor" in 1991. It extends the analysis in "Poverty, social exclusion and neighbourhood ...", by Howard Glennerster et al (CASE, 1999). After reviewing how poverty areas were defined, the present paper sets out the state of the 273 "poverty wards" in 1991, and explores changes across the 1990s on a variety of dimensions, including economic status, family structure, household wealth, and housing vacancy. The paper notes that the poverty wards made progress on a few key measures, while on other measures of neighbourhood vitality, already large gaps between poverty wards and national averages widened. The paper concludes by discussing what the results imply for government's ongoing efforts to ensure that by 2021, that no-one is seriously disadvantaged by where they live. (RH) |
| Accession Number | CPA-060228215 B |
| Classmark | W6: RH: S4C: 3RI: 3J: 82 |
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