Data

Children in Families with Limited Resources


Description

These statistics report on children in families that have both low income and cannot afford three or more out of a list of 22 basic necessities. The latest release can be found here:
https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/IncomePoverty/LAPovertyData

The data is from the Scottish Household Survey.

Low income means an equivalised net household income below 70% of the Scottish median.

The following breakdowns are provided:

- Council areas
- Health boards
- Number of adults in household
- Number of children in household
- Disability status (whether any of the adults living in household is disabled)
- Work status (whether any of up to two adults in household is in employment - we have no information on the employment status of any additional adult in household)
- Tenure
- 3-Fold urban/rural class
- SIMD quintile


Metadata

Theme Children and Young People
OrganisationScottish Government
License UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Published
Last updated
Update frequencyannual
Reference period2014 to 2017
Geographic coverageHealth Board Areas, Council Areas, Country
Contactsocial-justice-analysis@gov.scot

Data quality

Completeness

Not assessed

Uniqueness

Not assessed

Consistency

Not assessed

Timeliness

Not assessed

Validity

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Accuracy

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Quality management

The complete methodology for this limited resources local measure can be found here: https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Social-Welfare/IncomePoverty/LAPovertyData

Due to methodological changes that affected the sample size, data for four years have been combined for this release to achieve a sample size which allows local breakdowns.


Additional details

Revisions

Please note that the figures in this release replace figures published previously due to the changes in methodology.

Confidentiality policy

This dataset does not contain any directly identifiable personal information.