{"metric":"employment_deprivation_rate","title":"Employment deprivation rate","topic":"economy","unit":"% of working-age residents","measure_type":"percentage","geography":"E92000001","comparison_method":"previous_period","source":{"publisher":"MHCLG","publication":"English Indices of Deprivation: local authority district summaries","landing_url":"https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/english-indices-of-deprivation-2025"},"definition":"The population-weighted average of the district's small-area Employment Deprivation Domain scores from IoD2025. The domain score is the proportion of the working-age population involuntarily excluded from the labour market (claiming out-of-work benefits or long-term sick), so the average is read here as the share of working-age residents who are employment-deprived.","does_not_measure":"Unemployment on the ILO definition, or people who are out of the labour market by choice: it is built from benefit and sickness records, not a labour-force survey.","links":{"page":"/economy/employment-deprivation-rate","series":"/api/metrics/employment_deprivation_rate/series","vintages":"/api/metrics/employment_deprivation_rate/vintages"}}