Community Area Profiles: User Guide
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1. yo AE MAITE a Overview Profiles have been prepared for each of 42 Community Areas in Derbyshire See the final page of this document for a map of the areas The majority of these areas are identical to the Community Forum Areas CFAs that have been established to facilitate local area working improve the visibility of the County Council in local communities and encourage community engagement Where CFAs exist they lie within district boundaries In districts that do not have CFAs in operation Community Areas CAs have been defined to reflect communities in the underlying population The resulting 42 CAs vary in population size between 3 800 and over 30 000 Each profile contains a brief description of the Community Area a map to show its location in the county and an introduction to the profile There are then 10 sections of information each following a different Audit Commission Quality of Life theme Finally there is a detailed map of the area Reading the graphics Four different types of graphic have been used to illustrate a particular CA s statistics in relation to the same statistics for the other Community Areas and for Derbyshire and England 1 Slider bars e The slider shows the range of values across the 42 CAs In this example the values range from 31 1 to 14 8 of people with limiting long term illness llti Limiting long term illness e The position of the CA on the oe given statistic is marked A2. Environmental Services Land Availability System The total number of new dwellings is based on an aggregation of completion data for the financial years 2001 02 2002 03 2003 04 2004 05 2005 06 Flats are counted as separate units Demolitions are not included New dwellings per 1000 existing dwellings The number of new dwellings is expressed as a rate per 1000 existing dwellings The indicator should help to identify areas where there has been a large amount of new housing built in recent years In the slider bars a higher ratio is regarded as good although it could be argued that the reverse is true Council Tax bands Figures are published by ONS Neighbourhood Statistics and based on 2003 Community Area Profiles User Guide figures This data is drawn from Council Tax valuation lists and provides the overall number of domestic properties the dwelling stock and the number in each of the eight standard Council Tax bands These have been combined into four categories A and B C and D E and F G and H The total in each of the four categories has been expressed as a percentage of the total number of dwellings stock Council Tax valuations are based on the price that property would have fetched if it had been sold on the open market on 1 April 1991 Tenure The data on tenure is drawn from the 2001 Census The data is organised into three categories owner occupied renting from a local authority or housing assocation or
3. that of Derbyshire is marked D and England BE 31 1 This Area 21 8 Derbyshire 20 1 England 17 9 Figures for England may be missing from the slider bar if not available or if the figure for England falls outside the Derbyshire range e Colour is used to broadly define good and bad levels of a particular statistic with red illustrating the worst end of the spectrum and green the best e The circle to the left of the bar is coloured according to the CA s bar colour value and quickly indicates whether the CA value is bad medium or good In the above example the CA s 21 8 of people with Ilti falls into the middle band so the circle is coloured yellow e For some statistics a high value is good but for others a low value is good The scale on the slider bar is reversed to handle the latter situation as in the example above Community Area Profiles User Guide Blue and grey sliders are used to illustrate descriptive statistics where no value is considered better than any other e g population density N B The small numbers involved in certain CAs can give rise to distorted ranges on the slider bar see data issues below 2 Quarter boxes Residents Vi Cl The quarter box illustrates two aspects of eae tie Neve ON CIRAN Sial residents views on factors that make their local area a good place to live The firstis y the importance of a factor measured improving ho
4. Countryside Agency and others Large urban areas are defined as settlements with a population of 10 000 or more Dispersed dwellings hamlets and villages constitute the rural category Small towns and urban fringe constitute the remaining category The population living in each area type has been calculated as a percentage of the 2001 Census population since the latter is used to construct the classification The remaining statistics under the built environment section are from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Residents views on clean streets were sought The percentage of residents saying that clean streets were important in making somewhere a good place to live and the percentage that said that clean streets need improving is recorded together with the ranked position out of 21 factors Residents were also asked if rubbish and litter lying around and abandoned or burnt out cars were problems in their local area Community Area Profiles User Guide The percentage of residents who think that these factor are a problem is recorded Greenspace The statistic on greenspace is drawn from January 2005 Land Use Statistics Hectares published by the Department of Communities and Local Government Data amp Statistics Infrastructure DSI Division A classification has been developed which allocates all identifiable land features on an Ordnance Survey MasterMap into nine simplified land cat
5. babies This is a count of the number of babies born in 2005 with a weight of less than 2 500 grams expressed as a rate per 1000 total births The data has been supplied by East Midlands Public Health Observatory Accident and Emergency admissions under19s The number of A and E admissions to hospital is expressed as a rate per 1 000 population aged 0 18 The A and E data has been supplied by East Midlands Public Health Observatory Asthma emergency admissions under19 The number of asthma emergency admissions to hospital is expressed as a rate per 1 000 population aged 0 18 The A and E data has been supplied by East Midlands Public Health Observatory Residents views on health services These are taken from the 2006 BVPI User Satisfaction Survey Residents Community Area Profiles User Guide were asked if health services were important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether they needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents who say that health services are important and the percentage who Say that health services needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Culture and Leisure In this section all residents views are drawn from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Use and satisfaction levels relate to cultural and leisure facilities provided or supported by Derbyshire County Council Museums and Theatres Residents were asked about th
6. car or two or more cars is expressed as a percentage of all households in the area Bus services Residents views on local bus services are drawn from the BVPI User Satisfaction Survey 2006 They were asked about frequency of use Regular use combines almost every day at least once a week and about once a month categories Infrequent combines within the last 6 months last year and longer categories The percentage of residents using local bus services regularly infrequently or never are recorded in the table Satisfaction rates are for the local bus service overall Satisfied groups the very and fairly satisfied categories Dissatisfied groups the fairly and very dissatisfied categories Residents views on levels of traffic congestion These are drawn from the 2006 BVPI User Satisfaction Survey Residents were asked if levels of traffic congestion were important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether they needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents who say that levels of traffic congestion are important and the percentage who say that levels of traffic congestion needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Similar questions were asked on public transport and road and pavement repairs Access The MORI 2005 Derbyshire Residents Survey provides infor
7. database and covers the period 2003 2006 The number of road traffic accidents is expressed as a rate per 1 000 population In addition to the total rate of accidents involving pedestrians and cyclists is shown because these are likely to be local people and hence it provides an indicator of road safety in the local area Economic Well Being Economic activity Businesses and jobs The Annual Business Inquiry December 2005 provides the data on the number of businesses and the number of jobs in an area Numbers are published for a full range of Standard Industrial Classification SIC categories In the profile these have been grouped as follows Manufacturing SIC D Services SIC G H I J K L M N Other SIC A B C E F Note that the self employed are missing from the job count Because a particular business may employ one person or many people there are often significant differences between the sector proportions in the businesses and jobs topics Working age population The data source is ONS 2004 mid population estimates Working age is taken to be 16 59 for females and 16 64 for males Community Area Profiles User Guide Jobs per worker This is number of jobs in the area divided by the number of people of working age It can be used to measure the balance between the available workforce in the local area and the number of jobs available Unemployment The data source is Department of Work and Pensions DWP February
8. period April to December 2006 The overall count of crimes is expressed as a rate per 1 000 population The crime categories included cover those categories identified as priorities in the Council Plan The count for each crime category is expressed as a rate per 1000 population apart from domestic burglary which is expressed as a rate per 1000 households Community Area Profiles User Guide Violent crime This includes assaults robbery and sexual offences Domestic burglary This is burglary to dwellings including attempted and distraction burglaries A target box for domestic burglary is included The Derbyshire target for 2007 2008 is to reduce by 30 2003 2004 to 3 242 offences A local target has been calculated using the proportion of households in the Community Area to Derbyshire s total Derbyshire s current position has been similarly calculated Vehicle crime This includes theft from and theft of vehicles Criminal damage This includes arson all types of criminal damage including racially or religiously aggravated and threats or possession with intent to commit criminal damage A target box for criminal damage is included The Derbyshire target for 2007 2008 is to reduce criminal damage by 17 to 10 521 offences The target has been adjusted to a local target using the proportion of the total population in the Community Area Derbyshire s current position has been similarly ca
9. reading and interpreting other statistics where the numbers involved are small It is hoped at some point in the future to develop a methodology to screen out misleading small figures Understanding the statistics Residents views These appear in all 10 themed sections of the profile and are drawn from three sources 1 Best Value Performance Indicator BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 carried out every three years by all local authorities as a statutory requirement and used to measure a number of performance indicators To deal with the problem of small numbers of respondents in some Community Areas the following approach has been adopted For CAs with more than 30 respondents data is shown at CA level For CAs with less than 30 respondents district level data has been used There are two such areas Hope Valley CA in High Peak and Eckington and District CA in North East Derbyshire In the BVPI survey residents were asked to highlight what was most important in making somewhere a good place to live There was a prompt list of 21 factors from which up to five factors could be checked They were then asked to think about the local area and suggest what most needs improving using the same prompt list The findings from these two questions appear in many parts of the profile For each factor the percentage of residents saying a particular factor is important appears in a table together with the percentage saying that the fa
10. to 969 for 2007 2008 The Community Area Profiles User Guide 9 target has been adjusted to a local target using the proportion of the population aged 0 15 in the area Derbyshire s current position has been similarly calculated Anti social behaviour ASB Calls to report ASB The data is from Derbyshire Constabulary s Calls for Service database This records the general public s telephone calls to report ASB incidents Each call made by an individual whether or not they ring on a number of occasions is counted Counts for the total and two types of call rowdy nuisance behaviour and vehicle related are expressed as rates per 1000 population The data is for the period April December 2006 inclusive Residents views on anti social behaviour Problems in the local area The data source is the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Residents were asked to consider their local area and assess for a number of different types of ASB how much of a problem they felt that these were in their area Frequency of perceived ASB incidents in the local area The data source is the February 2006 Citizens Panel Survey Residents were asked how often they thought that ASB incidents happened in the streets around their homes Results for verbal abuse and people being drunk or rowdy in a public place are published Road safety The data is from Derbyshire County Council Environmental Services Road Traffic Accidents
11. 2007 count of Job Seekers Allowance JSA claimants The unemployment rate is the numbers of claimants expressed as a percentage of the working age population Youth unemployed These are people aged 16 24 inclusive claiming JSA Of the total youth unemployed the percentage that is male and the percentage that is female is given The total youth unemployed is expressed as a percentage of the total unemployed across all age groups The long term unemployed These are people who have been claiming JSA for over 12 months Of the total long term unemployed the percentage that is male and the percentage that is female is given The total is expressed as a percentage of the total unemployed Worklessness A person is counted as workless if they are claiming JSA or they are claiming Incapacity Benefit IB or Severe Disablement Allowance SDA The number of workless is expressed as a percentage of the working age population The data source for JSA counts is DWP May 2006 100 scan IB and SDA Residents views on job prospects These are drawn from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 They were asked if job prospects are important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether they needed improving in the local area The percentage of residents who say that job prospects are important and the percentage who say that job prospects needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Income and e
12. England This population is then expressed as a percentage of the total population in the Community Area Areas where there are very high levels of deprivation Brief descriptions of small areas with very high levels top 20 are given Not all Community Areas contain such areas Place The statistics here are drawn from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 as previously detailed in the residents views section Residents were asked how satisfied or dissatisfied they were with their local area as a place to live The percentage of residents who were satisfied dissatisfied or neither appear in the table They were also asked to cite up to five factors that were important in making somewhere a good place to live and also up to five factors that most needed improving in the local area The top five factors for both aspects appear in the profile Community Involvement and Cohesion Participation All data in this section is from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Figures are displayed as a percentage of respondents for the CA Residents were asked If they were already members or would like to become members of Derbyshire s Citizens Panel Community Area Profiles User Guide How satisfied they were with the opportunities that Derbyshire County Council provides for participation in local decision making Whether they agreed that they could influence decisions affecting their
13. a spouse partner or child in the household It also includes a lone grandparent with his or her grandchild ren where there are no children in the intervening generation A lone parent household is a household that contains only a lone parent family and no other person in the household Pensioner households Males aged 65 or over and females aged 60 or over are identified as people of pensionable age An all pensioner household is one where all the members of the household are of pensionable age Household types This section contains information from the ACORN Consumer Classification published by CACI The classification is a marketing tool designed for use in targeting UK customers It groups together households with similar lifestyle and demographic behaviour The classification names e g Wealthy Achievers etc are crude and are only intended as very brief labels Deprived populations These have been calculated using the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister s ODPM Indices of Deprivation 2004 Seven different aspects of deprivation are drawn into one composite index A deprivation index is published for each Lower Layer Super Output Area LSOA in England and then a ranking attached LSOAs form a statistical geography created so that statistics for small areas can be published by government departments The statistic presented here is the sum of the populations in each Community Area that live in the 30 most deprived LSOAs in
14. conomic support Average Household Income The data source is CACI s PayCheck April 2006 which provides an estimate of household income at postcode level It is based on government data e g Census together with income data for millions of UK households collected from lifestyle surveys Low Income Populations A count of the population with low income is published as part of the ODPM s Indices of Deprivation 2004 Index of Multiple Deprivation Overall counts are available together with figures older people aged 60 or over Children aged 0 15 living in low income families are also counted The numbers are derived using a range of benefits data including Income Support Pension credit claimants The data source is DWP August 2006 100 scan The number of claimants is expressed as a percentage of females aged 60 or over males aged 65 or Community Area Profiles User Guide over and the two combined The target box shows how each Community Area is performing on pension credit take up in relation to Derbyshire s position and also the target for the county Council Plan Indicator 18 1 for 2007 2008 Because the indicator is a straight count for the whole county not a rate the count has been proportioned using the number of people of pensionable age in the CA to give a local target The Derbyshire total count has been proportioned in the same way Residents views on wage levels These are drawn from BVPI General User Satisfaction S
15. ctor needs improving The rank out of the 21 factors on importance and needs improving is also given A rank of 1 means a factor of high importance or high priority for improvement The responses to these two questions are always illustrated by a quarter box graphic Community Area Profiles User Guide 3 2 MORI Residents Survey 2005 a survey commissioned by Derbyshire County Council and carried out by Ipsos MORI Because of the small number of respondents at Community Area level district level data has been used Information on volunteering in the community cohesion section and internet and mobile phone use is published at district rather than CA level 3 Derbyshire Citizens Panel Survey February 2006 a postal survey carried out in partnership between District Councils DCC and Derbyshire Constabulary and other partners The panel consists of around 8 000 Derbyshire residents who are broadly representative of the population of the county Panel members are surveyed to provide the council and its partners with public and customer feedback on its activities and policies Themed sections Data descriptions definitions are given below in the order in which they appear in the profile People and Place People Population counts and age structure This data is published by ONS as a set of experimental estimates The figures for 2004 are based on 2001 Census data rolled forward using registered bir
16. egories and an additional unclassified category The categories are Domestic Buildings Domestic Gardens Non Domestic Buildings Roads Railways Paths Greenspace Water Other largely hardstanding and Unclassified Air quality The statistic published here is the Combined Air Quality Indicator 2003 published by Department for Communities and Local Government The indicator represents a modelled measure of the concentration of four pollutants Nitrogen Dioxide Particulates Sulphur Dioxide and Benzene The indicator is available for all Lower Layer Super Output Areas in England The population living in the most polluted worst 30 of LSOAs in England has been expressed as a percentage of the total population in the area The remaining statistic in this section is from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Residents were asked if air pollution was important in making somewhere a good place to live and also if it needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents saying that the level of pollution was important in making somewhere a good place to live and the percentage that said it needed improving is recorded together with the ranked position out of 21 factors Housing Housing stock Number of existing dwellings The figures are from the 2001 Census The total includes unoccupied as well as occupied dwellings New dwellings This information has been drawn from the Derbyshire County Council
17. eir use of museums galleries in the last 12 months their levels of satisfaction and whether they thought that the museums galleries had improved in the last 3 years Similar questions were asked in relation to theatres concert halls Libraries The number of active library borrowers i e borrowed from a library in the last 12 months is expressed as a rate per 1000 population living in the Area Borrowers with faulty or missing postcodes have been excluded from the results These represent around 6 of the total Residents were asked about satisfaction with libraries and whether they thought that they had improved over the last 3 years Sports Residents were asked about their frequency of use in the last 12 months of sports facilities with responses classified as regular infrequent or never used They were also asked whether they were satisfied with sports facilities and whether they had improved over the last 3 years Residents views on sports leisure facilities These are drawn from the 2006 BVPI User Satisfaction Survey Residents were asked if sports leisure facilities were important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether they needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents who say that sports leisure facilities are important and the percentage who say that sports leisure facilities needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Leisure for children and youn
18. elled by applying the percentage achievement figures for the Middle Layer Super Output Area MLSOA within which LSOAs are located to the actual number of pupils taking the key skills exams within the particular LSOAs MLSOAs are a part of a statistical geography devised by ONS for the publication of small area statistics Local data relates to local authority maintained schools England data relates to all schools 5 GCSEs A C Information is drawn from DfES data published by Neighbourhood Statistics It relates to the academic year 2003 2004 Data is presented for boys girls and all pupils on the proportion of pupils achieving 5 grades A C The data relates to pupils who were 15 years old at the start of the academic year in question taking the exams In each case the denominator is the number of pupils taking the tests All the data relates to pupil residence rather than school ONS have withheld some of the achievement figures at LSOA level to preserve confidentiality In such instances the figures have been modelled by applying Community Area Profiles User Guide 12 the percentage achievement figures for the MSOA within which LSOAs are located to the actual number of pupils taking the key skills exams within the particular LSOAs Local data relates to local authority maintained schools England data relates to all schools The GCSE target is the Council Plan indicator for 2006 2007 GCSE performance by school Secondary schools in
19. er health The data has been supplied by East Midlands Public Health Observatory and relates to deaths from all causes to people aged under 75 during the period 1999 2003 It is appreciated that early death rate is a difficult measure to understand and the statistic will be replaced by Life Expectancy figures as soon as these become available for Community Areas Not good general health The 2001 census question asked people to self assess their general health over the last year Three responses were allowed good general health fairly good general health or not good The number of people with not good general health is expressed as a of the total population Limiting long term illness Ilti This is a self assessed long term illness health problem or disability including problems due to old age that limits a person s daily activities or the work that they do The percentage of people with Ilti is the number of people as a proportion of the total population The data source is the 2001 Census Disability Living Allowance This is a benefit for people who have a long term illness or disability either physical or mental who are aged under 65 The number of claimants is expressed as a of the total population aged under 65 Attendance Allowance is a benefit for people aged 65 orover who need help with personal care The number of claimants is expressed as a of those of retirement age Low birth weight
20. erbyshire s current performance is 250 and the CA s is 340 This shows that local performance is ahead of Derbyshire s but not yet at the required target level This second example shows a target Domestic burglary rate bar used where a decrease in a 7 statistic is required to show his Area Ml Derby 1 improvement e g domestic burglary o M rates Thus a low figure is good In this case the target for 2009 has not been met by either the county or the CA Community Area Profiles User Guide The circles to the left of the bar are coloured according the CA s performance green where the target is met and red where the target is not met Orange is used for the middle ground where a target is nearly met within 5 of the target 4 Bar and column charts As in other graphics green and red are used to colour bars columns illustrating good and bad statistics Blue and grey are used for purely descriptive statistics Data issues As mentioned above the 42 Community Areas in the county vary in population size from 3 800 in Hope Valley CA to three areas with over 30 000 people The small size of several of the CAs causes data problems There are instances in the three surveys used to gain residents views where there are too few respondents to make the information sufficiently robust to publish for all CAs Further details appear in the Residents Views section of the User Guide Care should also be taken in
21. g people Residents views on activities for teenagers These are taken from the 2006 BVPI User Satisfaction Survey Residents were asked if activities for teenagers were important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether they needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents who say that activities for teenagers are important and the percentage who say that activities for teenagers needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Similar questions were asked on facilities for young children Community Area Profiles User Guide 15 Young people s views Both County and District Youth Forums have been established to help gain the views of young people aged 11 19 The Derbyshire Youth Forum conducted a survey in Summer 2006 to seek young peoples views on the Youth Opportunity Fund and the Youth Capital Fund They were asked what they most liked to do in their own time and how they would like to spend a million pounds from a list of activity options Tourism There are few statistics on tourism available especially for areas below county level In this section tourist attractions within the local area are listed The information is drawn from 2005 Visitor Attraction Survey carried out by VisitBritain Transport and Access Transport Car availability The data is drawn from the 2001 Census The number of households in the area with no car one
22. lculated Residents views on crime These are taken from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Residents were asked if crime levels were important in making somewhere a good place to live and whether it needed improving in the local area The percentage of residents who say that crime levels are important and the percentage who say that crime levels needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Additionally residents were asked how often certain crimes took place in their local area They were asked how often they thought that cars were broken into and vandalism or graffiti and other property damage incidents happened in the streets around their homes The data source is the February 2006 Citizens Panel Survey Youth offending The data in this section is provided by Derbyshire Youth Offending Service Young people in this context are those aged between 0 and 17 First time offenders Counts are expressed as a percentage of all aged 0 15 population counts for 0 17 years are not available Re offenders Counts are expressed as percentages of all young offenders Prolific Offenders Counts are expressed as percentages of all young offenders Prolific offenders are considered by the Youth Offending Service to be likely to commit many offences A target box for first time youth offenders is included The Derbyshire target for 2007 2008 is to reduce first time offenders
23. local area and Whether they would like to be more involved in the decisions made by the council affecting the local area 50 Forums There are 14 independently constituted 50 Forums in the county They meet regularly to discuss issues affecting older people in the local area The primary objectives for the nearest forum to the CA are provided Community Cohesion Volunteering This data is from the MORI Residents Survey 2005 The information provided is at district level only as there were not enough respondents per CA to provide robust data Residents were asked if they had done any formal volunteering such as being members of a committee in the last three years They were also asked if they had done any informal volunteering for relatives and also for non relatives in the last 12 months Note that on the sliders for the three statistics on volunteering A relates to a district rather than a CA figure The BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 provides the residents views on whether people from different backgrounds get on well together a recognised measure of community cohesion and on whether they think that people not treating each other with respect is a problem in their local area Environment Built environment These statistics are drawn from the Rural and Urban Area Classification 2004 developed by the Office for National Statistics ONS the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs DEFRA the
24. mation on mobile phone and internet use Residents were asked if they personally used mobile phones the internet at home the internet at work place of study or elsewhere Note that this data is provided at district level only as there were too few responses to merit separate CA figures Community Area Profiles User Guide 16 Residents views on information about the Council and its services are drawn from the BVPI User Satisfaction Survey 2006 They were asked how well do you think the Council keeps its residents informed about the services and benefits it provides The percentage of people who feel that the Council keeps them Very and Fairly well informed combined into one category is recorded here Community Area Profiles User Guide 17 Tintwistle Glossop unparished Hayfield Chapel en le Frith unparished Chesterfield CHi Barrow Hill Whittington CH2 Brimington Tapton CH3 Dunston Moor St Helens CH4 Hasland St Leonards CH5 Holmebrook Rother CH6 Newbold Brockwell CH7 Staveley CH8 Walton West Erewash ER1 Borrowash Breaston ER2 Ilkeston ER3 Ilkeston Rural ER4 Kirk Hallam Sandiacre ER5 Long Eaton High Peak HP1 Buxton HP2 Glossop HP3 Hope Valley HP4 New Mills Whaley Bridge Chapel North East Derbyshire NE1 NE2 NE3 NE4 NE5 NE6 NE7 E Community Areas Wingerworth Clay Cross Dronfield Eastern Par
25. pils excluded so a pupil excluded twice will be counted twice The denominator used in calculating the exclusion rate is based on the number of young people aged 5 15 in the particular geography from the Census 2001 The indicator is the number of exclusions per 1000 pupils aged 5 15 The data is resident based rather than school based However the addresses used are the addresses at the time the data is extracted at the year end as opposed to the address a pupil was living at the time they were excluded if they had moved Also pupils for whom there are no address details have been excluded from the source dataset Adults The data used here is drawn from 2001 Census Key Statistics The number adults aged 16 74 with no qualifications with A levels or equivalent or with degree level or equivalent is expressed as a percentage of the total number of people of that age group Community Area Profiles User Guide Health and Social Well being Although this section is called Health and Social Well being to tie in with the Audit Commission theme the statistics mainly relate to Health Early death rate Mortality rates have been standardised to England s rate to allow comparisons to be made between areas that have different age structures Areas with early death rates higher than 100 show a higher mortality rate than might be expected given the age profile for the area Conversely a rate that is lower than 100 suggests bett
26. renting from private landlord or other The denominator in the proportion calculation is the sum of all 3 categories Housing affordability House price data has been extracted from the HM Land Registry Residential Property Price Report The data relates to houses sold between April 2005 and March 2006 Total sales and total price data is used to calculate the average house price To give a rough indication of housing affordability in the area a house price to income ratio has been calculated by dividing the average house price for the area by the average household income Income data is as described in the Economic Well being section Residents views on housing affordability This is taken from the BVPI General User Satisfaction Survey 2006 Residents were asked if affordable decent housing was an important factor in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether it needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents who say that housing affordability is important and the percentage who say that housing affordability needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Community Safety Neighbourhood Watch Derbyshire Constabulary hold detailed records on Neighbourhood Watch Schemes operating in the county The number of schemes operating in the CA is recorded Recorded crime The data source for this section is Derbyshire Constabulary s Recorded Crime database Crime records were extracted for the
27. rizontally and the second is whether a factor needs improving measured gt vertically For a particular CA the further mortar anki to the right is the triangle the more important is the factor Simultaneously the further up is the triangle the more the factor needs improving Thus in the above example measuring residents views on clean streets e The position of the triangle in the top right quarter of the graphic means that clean streets rank high on importance and high on needs improving for the residents of the CA e The nearby position of the square to the triangle shows that Derbyshire residents overall have similar views 3 Target bars Target bars illustrate how a Community Area is performing in relation to County Council targets that have been set to challenge performance in the future They also show how a CA s current performance compares with Derbyshire s overall performance In order to make this comparison the county level targets have been scaled down to equivalent targets for each CA and the actual county performance has been also been scaled to show what it would be at the CA level The form of target bar shown on the Benefits take up right is used where an increase in a I gt GOOL statistic is required to show 1 W Derbyshire E 2008 improvement e g take up of benefits It illustrates a performance statistic where the Derbyshire target for 2008 is 350 D
28. the CA are listed The performance at each of the secondary schools in terms of the proportion of students achieving 5GCSEs A C has been ranked The ranking out of the 47 secondary schools in Derbyshire is given rank 1 top performance rank 47 bottom performance Destinations The information is drawn from Connexions Derbyshire 2006 Year 11 Progression Analysis All pupils who left year 11 in summer 2006 either from mainstream schools support centres or home tuition were surveyed in November 2006 In the profile pupil progression is recorded under one of 3 headings 1 in learning which equates to full time education full time training 2 not in learning which is an aggregate of those in employment in voluntary part time activities or not in education employment or training NEET or 3 no response The no response heading includes those young people who have moved out of contact didn t respond or declined to participate The denominator used in the percentage calculation is the total number of young people surveyed in this CA irrespective of whether they responded or not The data is based on each young person s location of residence Pupil exclusions The data source is Derbyshire County Council Education Department data for 2005 06 All fixed term exclusions from Derbyshire primary and secondary schools in the academic year 2005 06 are counted It is based on the number of exclusions and not the number of pu
29. ths and deaths data in conjunction with migration data from health records Counts for the different age groups are expressed as proportions of the total population Population density This is expressed as a rate the number of persons per hectare Population counts are ONS experimental estimates as described above Hectares are derived from Ordnance Survey digitised data Ethnic minority population The data is drawn from the 2001 Census The question on ethnicity recorded each person s perceived ethnic group and cultural background These details were used to produce the classification seen in the table Asian group includes Asian British Black includes Black British Chinese includes others not included in any of the preceding groups The percentage of ethnic minority population in England 9 1 is missing from the blue slider bar as the value is beyond the range of values seen in the CAs of Derbyshire Household structure information is drawn from the 2001 Census Households with dependent children A dependent child is a person aged 0 15 in a household whether or not in a family or aged 16 18 in full time education and living as a family with his or her parent s Lone parent households A lone parent family is a father or mother with his or her child ren where the parent does not have a spouse or partner in the household and the children Community Area Profiles User Guide 4 do not have
30. tnership Eckington and District Rural Partnership South Eastern Partnership Parishes HP 2 suonn Buxton Amber Valley Bolsover AVi Alfreton Somercotes Crich BO1 Barlborough Clowne AV2 _ Belper Kilburn BO2 Bolsover AV3 _ Duffield Kirk Langley BO3 Shirebrook AV4 Heanor Codnor BO4 South Normanton Tibshelf nao Weel AVS _ Ripley Heage Derbyshire Dales l DD1 Dales Central DD2 DD3 Dales North Dales South Castleton Eck Dronfield Town NE3 Holmesfield Barlborough Stoney Litten Middleton Curbar aome BOT Great ie Longstone tle Baslow amp Bubnell 4 logoe Brustfidd DD2 g Taddington genio A Chelmorton Water Bs Sheldon Edensor Flagg Bakewell Town owt Paddon Nether Monyash Youlgreave Ashover Hartington Middleton Tibsheit Hartington Nether Quarter Blackwell South Eston Normanton N South Wingfield Town AV Pentrich Pinxton 2 a cs Kniveton Shottle amp Atl Offcote amp ee Biggin Postem G Underwood DD3 Bradley Hulland Shirley Brailsford Yeav eleyo s RS Longford South Derbyshire SD1 Etwall Bretby Tekna SD2 Linton gkg SD3 Melbourne Herston SD4 Newhall 4 Re SD5 Repton SD6 Swadlincote Netherseal Derbyshire Community Areas March 2007 Whitwell
31. urvey 2006 Residents were asked if wage levels were important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether they needed improving in the local area The percentage of residents who say that wage levels are important and the percentage who say that wage levels needs improving is recorded together with the ranks for this factor Regeneration initiatives It is hoped that a list of these will be included at some point in the future Education and Life long learning Residents views on education provision These are taken from the 2006 BVPI User Satisfaction Survey Residents were asked if education provision was important in making somewhere a good place to live and also whether it needed improving in their local area The percentage of residents who say that education provision is important and the percentage who say that education provision needs improving are recorded together with the ranks for this factor Key stage 1 Information is drawn from Department of Education and Science DfES data on Neighbourhood Statistics Achievement at level 2 in 2005 in Key Stage 1 in reading writing and mathematics is provided The denominator for the percentage is the number of pupils taking the tests The data is based on location of pupil residence rather than on school ONS have withheld some of the achievement figures at LSOA level to preserve confidentiality In such instances the figures have been mod
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