ID 2007: Employment Deprivation Scale for English Local Authorities

ID 2007 Employment Scale measures the number of people experiencing employment deprivation across England. The dataset was produced by the Office for National Statistics using administrative data from 2005, published under the Neighbourhood Statistics service. It provides figures for Local Authority Districts and County/Unitary Authorities for the 2007 reporting period.

Use Cases

• Mapping employment deprivation hotspots based on geographic coverage of Local Authority Districts.
• Analyzing socioeconomic disparities between regions based on the employment deprivation metric.
• Informing local government resource allocation and policy based on administrative data for 2007.
• Benchmarking local authority performance against national trends using the standardized employment scale.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official administrative records processed by the Office for National Statistics.
• Geographic coverage is specific, covering all Local Authority Districts and County/Unitary Authorities in England.
• The dataset has a defined temporal anchor, representing the 2007 reporting period using 2005 source data.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2005/2007 period and the UK administrative system.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics (publisher: Neighbourhood Statistics)

Collection Method

Administrative data with statistical transformations applied.

Time Range

2007 (using 2005 data)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:07.407036; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England (Local Authority District, County/Unitary Authority)