UK Economic Performance

Data out today shows that the UK economy shrank by -0.2% between the fourth quarter 2011 and the first quarter 2012.  Quarterly change since 2008 is here.  The ONS also revised their estimate of the change between Q3 2011 and Q4 2011, from -0.2% to -0.3%.  It is also worth noting that the UK economy is still smaller than at the start of the recession.

Energy use linked to deprivation

Data from DECC

Areas with per capita energy consumption below 5000 kilowatt hours

Methodology: 

• calculate a deprivation score from the 2009 SIMD for each Intermediate Datazone using a weighted average;
• rank in order in order so that 1 equals the most deprived; 
• similarly, rank the per capita energy use so that 1 equals the lowest use;
• work out the difference so that, for example, a negative score shows that the use ranking is higher than the deprivation ranking, and vice versa;
• dark green areas in the map show where the negative difference is greatest.

The two datazones covering Milton are relatively highly deprived and also have relatively high levels of per capita energy consumption.


Possible explanations:
People consume energy up to the point to which they can afford it

April 2012 Stats

Latest Labour Market Data for Glasgow (April 2012)

Hover over this for further explanation, comments , and Scottish data

Ward Details April 2012

Basic details of Glasgow Multi-Member Wards as at April 2012.

Maps from fusion tables

See this link to data for the old CHCP areas.


Alternately, see the embedded map below, and click on each of the five areas to get a selection of data.

Presentation

These are different ways of providing a tabular summary of data

Updated Stats

Another version

What I like about them is that the appearance is clear and uncluttered, even on the second version where the additional data floats above the table.  But you still have to click to remove the additional information, and there is that annoying extra message about multiple tables.  More work needed!

March 2012 Stats

The latest information on claimant count unemployment was released earlier today by the Office for National Statistics.  For Glasgow, the details are that 25,540 persons received JSA in February 2012, equivalent to 6.2% of the working age population.  For persons aged 18-24 6,865 claims were made, giving a rate of 9.8% for that particular age group.

Between January and February the total claimant count in Glasgow increased by 680, or by 2.7%; and the increase for the 18-24 age group was 5.0%.  In Scotland the total increased by 2.5%, and for the UK by 2.2%; for the 18-24 group the changes were 4.5% and 3.5% respectively.

On the other hand, between February 2011 and February 2012 the total claimant count in Glasgow fell by 1.1% (from 25,835 to 25,540) whereas in Scotland it increased by 3.1%, and by 9.7% in the UK.  And while claims to the 18-24 age group increased by 5.0% in Glasgow (from 6,535 to 6,865), they went up by 5.9% in Scotland, and by 14.0% across the UK.

The unemployment rate in Glasgow (6.2%) is higher than in Scotland (4.4%) and the UK (4.2%); but is lower than in Manchester, Liverpool and Birmingham.  The rate for the 18-24 age group in Glasgow (9.8%) is higher than in Scotland (8.9%) and in the UK (8.4%).

(For additional information, click on the hyperlinks to get visualisations produced using Google Charts, which open in a separate browser.  Scan the cursor over the columns to get the exact details.  The links can also be opened if you read the email on a Blackberry, i-Phone 4 and Android 3.0 and above.)