Do people who live in the suburbs have good employment opportunities?

Suburbs often have the image of being cosy and middle class. However a suburb is only a residential area on the edge of a town or city.

Study the two photographs below

Aston Lodge Stone , Staffordshire Bentilee, Stoke-on-Trent

Which one fits in more with the image of a suburb?

What reasons do you give?

Which one will have better employment opportunities and quality of life?

Task

You have been asked to present a report to the Council outlining differences in employment opportunities in North Staffordshire. You may use PowerPoint or a word processing package. A spreadsheet package may help.

Your report should include at least 2 maps showing employment characteristics of inhabitants of the area. Try and show more than piece of data on the map.

Your report should have an introduction describing where these places are.

It should have meaningful maps which can be contrasted between the areas.

Reference to deprivation should be made.

Can you account for variations between the areas in

% of people aged 16-74 who area seeking work but unemployed?

% of people self employed?

% of people part time ?

Suggestions as to what effects employment opportunities can have on the inhabitants of the area.

You should also be critical of the method of map display you have used e.g what area the advantages and disadvantages of the mapping techniques used.

Make a conclusion to the original question.

Do people who live in the suburbs have good employment opportunities?

Tips

If www.statistics.gov.uk site is used neighbourhood type in Stoke-on-Trent 017C for an area of Bentilee and Stafford 004C for an area of Aston Lodge

If Scamp4/5 is used then Census area codes listed below should be used. There are more elements of employment to map using Scamp4/5. Data for these areas are below.

2001 Census / Bentilee / Aston Lodge
Census area code / 00GLMY0035 / 41UGHD0015
Full Time=FT Part Time=PT
All males aged 16 - 74 / 77 / 118
%M16-74 employed PT / 0 / 3.39
%M16-74 employed FT / 33.77 / 66.95
%M16-74 self-employed / 9.09 / 13.56
%M16-74 unemployed / 6.49 / 0
%M16-74 FT student +PT job / 0 / 2.54
%M16-74 retired / 15.58 / 8.47
%M16-74 FT student-no job / 3.9 / 5.08
% M16-74 no job-home maker / 5.19 / 0
% M16-74 long term sick etc / 22.08 / 0
% M16-74 unemployed 16-24 / 0 / 0
% M16-74 unemployed 50+ / 0 / 0
All females aged 16 - 74 / 114 / 119
%F16-74 employed PT / 6.14 / 20.17
%F16-74 employed FT / 18.42 / 43.7
%F16-74 self-employed / 2.63 / 6.72
%F16-74 unemployed / 4.39 / 0
%F16-74 FT student+ PT job / 3.51 / 6.72
%F16-74 retired / 24.56 / 7.56
%F16-74 FT student-no job / 5.19 / 6.78
% F16-74 no job-home maker / 14.91 / 9.24
% F16-74 long term sick etc / 15.79 / 3.36
% F16-74 unemployed and16-24 / 2.63 / 0
% F16-74 unemployed and 50+ / 0 / 2.52
M and F total % unemployed / 5.24 / 0
M and F total % Students / 5.24 / 8.44

(This table can be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet for further analysis)

Other information

A recent conference highlights neglect of the suburbs.

Suburbs 'in need of renovation'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4835476.stm

A PowerPoint “Sick City” looks at variations in health in Stoke-on-Trent