Member Insight and Analysis
The Member Insight & Analysis section provides Rural Services Network members with tailored analyses of key statistics to assist them and their communities better understand the areas in which they work and live. Select the section that you are interested in to access the latest analyses available, alternatively select the Observatory Archive to access past RSN analyses.
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| The rural economy is as diverse and important to delivering a strong, cohesive community as any economy would be. This section therefore provides important markers as to the state of the economy for our member authorities. | |
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| Balancing the housing market, improving the quality of housing stock, and enabling the provision of affordable housing are all key issues which concern rural local authorities. These are often topical issues and the Housing Insight section considers what the data available can tell us about the position and the challenges that our members face in their communities. | |
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| Where data is available that provides a statistical view of the living or physical environment of local authority members, it will be presented in this section. | |
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| This section takes a look at the indicators of health, wellbeing and social services, each of which are paramount for strong, civilized societies. | |
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| The Department for Education has the vision of providing world-class education, training and care for everyone, whatever their background. In this section we present the statistics that measure the outcome of this vision for our local authority members. | |
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| What does data tell you about the population in your local authority area, and how is it changing? This section looks to provide the insight to answer these questions and to show the situation rurally across England. | |
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| Travel and transport in rural communities can present challenges in accessing education and training, employment, and services. This section presents the data that explores the situation for our member authorities. | |
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Observatory ArchivePast analyses can be accessed here. |
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27 Nov 2024
Households not connected to the gas network
Rising energy bills and changes the Government is introducing to how we heat our homes means that it is important that local councils know the make-up of their local area...
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27 Nov 2024
Employment and Support Assessment
Employment and Support Assessment (ESA) is an income replacement benefit for people below state pension age. If someone has a health condition or di sability, and for that reason are...
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22 Nov 2024
Population Life Expectancies
This analysis presents the life expectancy by gender at birth in 2020-22. It provides for comparison the life expectancies for the rural-urban classifications. ? Download the Population Life Expectancies analysis here
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21 Nov 2024
Analysis of the Annual Population Survey Personal Well-being dataset: 2011/12 – 2022/23
Through the answers given to four questions taken from the Annual Population Survey it is possible to gauge levels of life satisfaction, happiness, estimates of the feeling that things in...
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13 Nov 2024
Excess winter mortality
This analysis presents data from the Office for National Statistics showing the Excess Winter Mortality for a chosen local authority for the years 1991/92 to 2020/21. The local authority position...
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01 Nov 2024
House building
This analysis presents data on housebuilding, permanent dwellings started and completed, as a proportion of the total dwelling stock. The analysis uses source data from the Ministry of Housing, Communities...
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26 Apr 2024
Housing Affordability
This analysis presents data on housing affordability. Access to affordable housing is a continuing issue and the ratio of house price to earnings continues to be an issue in many...
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20 Feb 2024
Job Quality Indicators
The attached analysis presents ONS indicators of the quality of jobs (hours, earnings and contract information) in the UK using earnings data from the Annual Population Survey (APS) from 2018...
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20 Feb 2024
Local Area Migration Indicators
The Office for National Statistics has produced a set of data on migration flow as part of its set of local area migration indicators. This data has been used within...
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16 Feb 2024
Jobs density
Economy Insight on the RSN website has now been updated with an analysis examining Jobs Density at local authority level. The density figures represent the ratio of total jobs to...
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