Spatial scale and small area population statistics for England and Wales

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Table 1. Key statistics census tables and derived variables.

Table	Table description	Description
KS102	Age structure	Age 0 to 15; 16 to 29; 30 to 64; 65 plus
KS201	Ethnic group	Whites; Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic
KS402	Housing tenure	Owner occupied; social rented; private rented
KS404	Cars and vans	Cars or vans; no cars or vans
KS501	Qualifications and students (persons aged 16 and over)	No qualifications; qualifications
KS601	Economic activity – all persons (aged 16–74)	Unemployed economically active; employed economically active
KS301	Health and provision of unpaid care	With LLTI; no LLTI
KS611	NS-SeC (persons aged 16–74)*	NS-SeC1, 2; 3 to 7; 8

Note: *The NS-SeC classes are as follows:

NS-SeC 1, 2: Managerial, administrative and professional occupations

NS-SeC 3–7: Intermediate, routine and manual occupations

NS-SeC 8: Never worked and long-term unemployed.

Table 2. Counts and percentages.

Variable	Definition	2011	2011%
A0to15	Persons aged 0 to 15	10,579,132	18.87
A16to29	Persons aged 16 to 29	10,495,245	18.72
A30to64	Persons aged 30 to 64	25,778,462	45.97
A65plus	Persons aged 65 plus	9,223,073	16.45
White	White persons	48,209,395	85.97
BAME	Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic	7,866,517	14.03
OwnOcc	Owner occupied HH	15,031,914	64.33
SocRent	Social rented HH	4,118,461	17.63
PrivRent	Private rented HH	4,215,669	18.04
CarsVans	HH with cars or vans	17,376,274	74.37
NoCarsVans	HH with no cars or vans	5,989,770	25.63
Qual	Persons with qualifications	35,189,453	77.34
NoQual	Persons with no qualifications	10,307,327	22.66
EAEmploy	EA employed persons	25,449,863	93.40
EAUnemp	EA unemployed persons	1,799,536	6.60
NSSEC12	NS-SeC 1,2	12,792,224	34.19
NSSEC37	NS-SeC 3–7	22,324,839	59.66
NSSEC8	NS-SeC 8	2,301,614	6.15
NoLLTI	Persons with no LLTI	46,027,471	82.08
WithLLTI	Persons with a LLTI	10,048,441	17.92

Note: HH are households; EA is economically active. NB: PrivRent includes ‘Private rented: Private landlord or letting agency’, ‘Private rented: Other’ and ‘Living rent free’; NS-SeC counts include imputed persons.

Figure 1. (A) Percentage of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic persons by OAs. (B) Percentage of persons with no qualifications by OAs. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2012. Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2012.

Table 3. Index of dissimilarity, D (for stated sub-group versus remainder in category (e.g., A0to15 versus all others by age and White versus BAME)).

	D				% contributed by level
	OA	LSOA	MSOA	LA	LA	MSOA	LSOA	OA
A0to15	0.161	0.119	0.089	0.048	29.814	25.466	18.634	26.087
A16to29	0.208	0.178	0.159	0.115	55.288	21.154	9.135	14.423
A30to64	0.102	0.075	0.059	0.035	34.314	23.529	15.686	26.471
A65plus	0.274	0.209	0.167	0.114	41.606	19.343	15.328	23.723
White	0.592	0.576	0.564	0.494	83.446	11.824	2.027	2.703
OwnOcc	0.446	0.370	0.303	0.178	39.910	28.027	15.022	17.040
SocRent	0.592	0.468	0.355	0.187	31.588	28.378	19.088	20.946
PrivRent	0.371	0.308	0.260	0.153	41.240	28.841	12.938	16.981
NoCarsVans	0.402	0.357	0.317	0.229	56.965	21.891	9.950	11.194
NoQual	0.255	0.212	0.181	0.117	45.882	25.098	12.157	16.863
EAUnEmp	0.300	0.252	0.219	0.145	48.333	24.667	11.000	16.000
NSSEC12	0.265	0.237	0.213	0.134	50.566	29.811	9.057	10.566
NSSEC37	0.207	0.185	0.167	0.114	55.072	25.604	8.696	10.628
NSSEC8	0.374	0.329	0.296	0.216	57.754	21.390	8.824	12.032
WithLLTI	0.199	0.150	0.122	0.093	46.734	14.573	14.070	24.623

Figure 2. Variograms for all log-ratios for OAs, LSOAs and MSOAs (2 km lag).

Figure 2. Continued.

Table 4. Variogram model coefficients; ‘sph’ is spherical.

Zones	Variable			Model			Model
OA	Age1 (A0to15, A16to29, A30to64/A65plus)	0.344	0.087	sph	4263.96	0.113	sph	86839.5
LSOA		0.126	0.091	sph	6757.89	0.069	sph	85467.8
MSOA		0.03	0.07	sph	4952.33	0.064	sph	31068.3
OA	Age2 (A0to15, A16to29/ A30to64)	0.048	0.03	sph	2621.18
LSOA		0.019	0.028	sph	4477.59
MSOA		0.007	0.027	sph	4836.4
OA	Age3 (A0to15/A16to29)	0.089	0.129	sph	2773.67
LSOA		0.005	0.129	sph	2560
MSOA			0.093	sph	3438.41
OA	Ethnicity (White/BAME)	0.172	0.35	sph	6262.94	0.686	sph	56303.7
LSOA		0.066	0.373	sph	6846.92	0.659	sph	57609.8
MSOA		0.045	0.329	sph	8235.68	0.617	sph	57531.5
OA	Tenure1 (OwnOcc, PrivRent/SocRent)	1.251	0.412	sph	4014.59	0.087	sph	12878.5
LSOA		0.768	0.333	sph	3565.81	0.169	sph	18006.5
MSOA		0.349	0.189	sph	3472.66	0.094	sph	14197.3
OA	Tenure2 (OwnOcc/ PrivRent)	0.189	0.196	sph	2369.04	0.214	sph	24782.4
LSOA		0.088	0.145	sph	3344.24	0.191	sph	22850.4
MSOA			0.144	sph	3050.95	0.193	sph	26003.2
OA	CarsVans (NoCarsVans/CarsVans)	0.243	0.421	sph	26846.5
LSOA		0.139	0.375	sph	24757.4
MSOA		0.073	0.326	sph	25275.1
OA	Qual (NoQual/Qual)	0.145	0.124	sph	4011.36
LSOA		0.058	0.105	sph	4174.95
MSOA		0.02	0.083	sph	4326.28
OA	Employ (Employ/Unemp)	0.155	0.076	sph	4538	0.039	sph	63928.9
LSOA		0.066	0.076	sph	4654.39	0.041	sph	51802.1
MSOA		0.029	0.064	sph	4784.13	0.045	sph	45947.6
OA	NSSEC1 (NSSEC12, NSSEC37/NSSEC8)	0.265	0.194	sph	4645.67	0.159	sph	48765.6
LSOA		0.124	0.204	sph	4644.74	0.174	sph	43760
MSOA		0.053	0.18	sph	4851.75	0.169	sph	40091.5
OA	NSSEC2 (NSSEC12/ NSSEC37)	0.089	0.096	sph	4242.29	0.049	sph	10735.9
LSOA		0.043	0.099	sph	4559.41	0.045	sph	15133.3
MSOA		0.018	0.087	sph	4701.14	0.044	sph	16135.2
OA	LLTI (WithLLTI/NoLLTI)	0.102	0.031	sph	2621.18
LSOA		0.036	0.025	sph	3573.12
MSOA		0.008	0.021	sph	3048.61

Note: The parts (percentages) given in parenthesis after the variables (log-ratios) are defined following Section 3.2; the numerators are separated by commas.