Glossary of Research and Consultation Terms
There are a number of abbreviations and acronyms that Research
& Consultation use, and they are defined below.
CEC – Cheshire East
Council
CWaC – Cheshire
West and Chester Council
DORIC:
Data Observatory Research and Intelligence
Collaborative
A data source of information on subjects such as demographic,
economic and health data, covering Cheshire East, Chester West
and Chester, Halton and Warrington.
Fuel poverty
A household is said to be in fuel poverty if it needs to spend more
than 10 per cent of its income on fuel to maintain a
satisfactory heating regime. That is maintaining 21 degrees Celsius
(70 degrees Fahrenheit) for the main living area, and 18
degrees (64 degrees Fahrenheit) for other occupied rooms.
IMD
–
Index of Multiple Deprivation
This measures deprivation across the LSOAs in Cheshire East and
throughout England & Wales. It analyses deprivation
across 7 domains, namely Income, Employment, Barriers to Housing
& Services, Crime, Living Environment, Health & Disability
and Education, Skills & Training.
JSNA:
The Joint Strategic
Needs Assessment
This describes a process that identifies current and future
health and wellbeing needs in light of existing services and
informs future service planning taking into account evidence of
effectiveness. Joint Strategic Needs Assessment identifies 'the big
picture', in terms of the health and wellbeing needs and
inequalities of a local population." The Local Government and
Public Involvement in Health Act (2007) placed a duty on all local
authorities and Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) to undertake a Joint
Strategic Needs Assessment (
JSNA
). The
JSNA
that
covers Cheshire East was produced in conjunction with Central and
Eastern Cheshire Primary Care Trust can be found at
DORIC.
LAPs
(Local
Area Partnerships)
These are the largest geographical regions within Cheshire East,
and are essentially ‘administrative’ areas. Local Area Partnerships
(
LAP
s) bring together
the key agencies within localities to ensure engagement with
communities, provide empowerment opportunities and improve service
delivery through the development of robust, evidence based Area
Delivery Plans. There are 7
LAP
s in Cheshire East, with
their Census 2011 populations being as follows:
MOSAIC
A socio-economic segmentation tool, produced by Experian,
categorising households and small areas into groups and types
depending on a number of factors including income, age and place of
residence.
MYE
– Mid-Year
Estimate
The mid-year population estimates refer to the usually resident
population on 30 June of the reference year and are published
annually. This product is the official set of population estimates
for the UK and its constituent countries, the regions of England
and Wales and for local authorities, consisting of a consistent
time-series of annually published estimates from 1981 onwards.
NEET
Young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training.
ONS:
Office for National Statistics
This is the government agency responsible for compiling, analysing
and disseminating many of the United Kingdom’s economic,social and
demographic statistics including the Retail Price Index, trade
figures and labour market data as well as the periodic census of
the population and health statistics.
Population Density
This is measured by calculating the number of people per square
kilometre.
RandC
Research and
Consultation team of Cheshire East Council.
RPI
- Retail price
index
This is the main domestic measure of inflation
in the UK. It measures the average change in the prices of goods
and services purchased by most households in the UK.
RSL
- Registered Social
Landlords
These are government-funded not-for-profit organisations that
provide affordable housing. They include housing associations,
trusts and cooperatives. They work with local authorities to
provide homes for people meeting the affordable homes criteria. As
well as developing land and building homes, RSLs undertake a
landlord function by maintaining properties and collecting
rent.
SOAs
(Super
Output Areas)
These are units of geography, or set geographical areas, used in
the UK for statistical analysis. They are developed and released by
Neighbourhood Statistics. SOAs were created with the intention that
they would not be subject to frequent boundary change. This makes
SOA
s more suitable than
other geography units (such as wards) because they are less likely
to change over time, and thus SOAs are more suitable to change over
time analysis. RandC refer to two layers of SOAs, namely the
following:
- Lower Layer (
LSOAs
) - Minimum population
1,000, mean population 1,500. Built from groups of Output Areas.
There are 34,378
LSOAs
in England and Wales,
and 231 in Cheshire East
- Middle Layer (
MSOAs
) - Minimum
population 5,000, mean population 7,200. Built from LSOAs. There
are 7,193 MSOAs in England and Wales, and 51 MSOAs in Cheshire
East
Unemployment / Claimant count
Unemployment measures all people who meet the internationally
agreed definition of unemployment. It is different from the
claimant count, which measures only those people who are claiming
unemployment-related benefits (Jobseeker's Allowance). The number
of unemployed people in the UK and Cheshire East is higher
than the claimant count. Not everyone who is unemployed is eligible
for, or indeed claims, Jobseeker’s Allowance (
JSA
). Many unemployed people
(especially women) are not eligible for
JSA
because they have a partner who
is in work and/or because of their financial position. While most
recipients of
JSA
would
be classified as unemployed, some would fall into the "employed" or
"economically inactive" categories.
