Regional Trends

THEME: How the lives of children and young people up to the age of 19 vary between the regions and countries of the UK. Areas covered are population, poverty, education, health and social care and criminal justice

ARTICLES INCLUDE:
Three statistical portraits of regions: the East of England, East Midlands and Yorkshire and The Humber. Looks at what it is like to live in these individual regions, making comparisons on various levels
Women in business in the regions: looks at self-employed women in the regions and their working patterns
Analysing Change over Time for Small Areas
Understanding the Index of Multiple Deprivation

Key statistics for the countries of the UK and regions of England
Maps showing variations between areas in key topics
Online table catalogue

Redesigned this year. New features include:

• Topic article comparing between regions and countries of the UK
• Articles looking at specific regions in more depth
• New articles to support decision-making in local and regional government
• More maps and graphs
• Directory of online data tables gives easy access to downloadable tables (no longer printed in the book)

 
List of figures, maps and tables

List of contributors and acknowledgements

Introduction and Summary

Section 1: Articles

1. Children and young people around the UK

2. Women in business

3. Portrait of Yorkshire and The Humber

4. Portrait of the East Midlands

5. Portrait of the East of England

6. Understanding patterns of deprivation

7. Analysing change over time for small areas

Section 2: Region and Country Profiles

8.1 North East

8.2 North West

8.3 Yorkshire and The Humber

8.4 East Midlands

8.5 West Midlands

8.6 East of England

8.7 London

8.8 South East

8.9 South West

8.10 Wales/ Cymru

8.11 Scotland

8.12 Northern Ireland

Section 3: Data

9. Maps

10. Tables

11. Directory of online tables

Section 4: Reference

Useful websites

Boundary maps

Glossary

Symbols and conventions