GLA Economics forecasts slow growth for London in the coming year

GLA Economics has just published its latest economic forecasts for London. This uses our bespoke and newly updated forecasting model to estimate London’s economic output (as measured by gross value added or GVA), workforce jobs[1], household income and household spending up to 2021. At the headline level, we forecast: London’s economy is expected to have…

Indices of Deprivation 2019 Initial Analysis

The Indices of Deprivation 2019 (ID2019) are the Government’s primary measure of deprivation for small areas (known as LSOAs) in England. They replace and update the Indices of Deprivation 2015. The main index is the Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD), which combines measures across seven distinct aspects of deprivation. It is important to note that…

A richer understanding of Londoners’ belonging, social isolation and views on fairness – further analysis of The Survey of Londoners

In June of this year we published the headline findings from The Survey of Londoners, a major new social survey designed to measure social integration, economic fairness and food security across the city. The Survey provided new data on the extent of social mixing among Londoners and how these experiences are related to their sense…

Volunteer at City Hall’s next Data Surgery

On July 24, the Greater London Authority will host it’s next Data Surgery for Civil Society organisations looking for support and guidance to get the most out of their data. We are looking for data scientists, analysts, statisticians and researchers who would be willing to volunteer for a couple of hours and share their expertise…

Assessing the unequal impact of tax and welfare reform in London

Today, GLA City Intelligence published the first cumulative impact assessment (CIA) of welfare and tax reform in London. The UK tax-benefit system has undergone wide-reaching changes since 2010, including the gradual rollout of Universal Credit, above-inflation increases in the tax-free personal tax allowance and the introduction of the National Living Wage, alongside a host of…

The first food security estimates for London

Back in October 2018, we wrote about the GLA’s plans to measure food security in London for the first time, through a series of questions included in the Survey of Londoners. The Survey has now concluded and the first results have been published on the London Datastore. With regard to food security the picture is…

Using digital ‘exhaust’ to inform our Social Evidence Base

The City Intelligence Unit has published findings from research investigating the potential of new digital data sources to inform social policy analysis at City Hall. We are undertaking a programme of work known as the Social Evidence Base to inform policy on issues such as social integration, economic fairness and social mobility – areas which…