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 FOCUS ON Social Inequalities

 Editors Penny Babb, Jean Martin and Paul Haezewindt

Office for National Statistics; London TSO, December 2004

 Summary:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fosi2004/SocialInequalities_summary.pdf


 Full Report PDF file [121p.] at:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_compendia/fosi2004/SocialInequalities_full.pdf


 Focus on Social Inequalities describes the different experiences of social
groups in the UK today in six key areas: education, work, income, living
standards,

health, and participation. It looks at the advantaged; as well as the
disadvantaged; and explores the relative differences between them.

Infant mortality is a key indicator of the nation's health. The infant
mortality rate fell substantially over the twentieth century in response to
improved living conditions, availability of healthcare and other factors.
Despite this, differentials still exist by father's socio-economic status,
birthweight, marital status of parents and mother57;s country of birth. For
babies registered by both parents, the infant mortality rate is highest for
babies with fathers in semi-routine and routine occupations. Moreover, the
decrease of 5 per cent in the infant mortality rate for this group between
1994 and 2002 was far smaller than the 16 per cent fall in the overall
infant mortality rate.

Another indicator of health for social groups is self-reported poor health.
On an age-standardised basis, reporting of poor health was highest by far
among the long-term unemployed and never-worked group (19 per cent for men
and 20 per cent for women) and lowest among those in the professional and
managerial occupations (4 per cent and 5 per cent respectively).

Patterns of limiting long-term illness are similar to those of
self-reported poor health. Among men, age-standardised rates were five
times higher for those who were long-term unemployed or had never worked
(43 per cent) than those in the professional and managerial group (9 per
cent). The difference for women was slightly smaller, at 36 per cent and 10
per cent respectively

 Website:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/focuson/socialinequalities/default.asp

 Education, Training & Skills

Work

Income

Living Standards

Health

Participation

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