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Index of sociocultural advantage (22269) Metric type
- Help text
- This is the index of ‘sociocultural advantage’, which looks at factors that can help people’s chances of social mobility. It is measured by parental education (university degree), parental occupation (higher professional), and professional work for young people.
The Social Mobility Commission (SMC) publishes an annual report on the State of the Nation. This is one of five composite indices which the SMC gives ranking for an area. These are childhood poverty and disadvantage, precarious situations, promising prospects, research and development, and sociocultural advantage. This index combines data from the following three indicators into a single 'composite' score to give a more reliable picture of geographical mobility patterns:
a) Distribution of parental education – data on parents with a university degree
b) Distribution of parental occupation – data on parents in higher professional occupations
c) Type of employment opportunities for young people – data on young people in higher professional occupations
The data is adjusted for socio-economic background, so it measures how promising the prospects are of young people from similar social backgrounds. Indicators are rescaled to make sure they use a common metric. The best-performing area’s score is set to 1, and the least well-performing area’s score is set to 0. The data used is from 2014 onwards to produce a combined score.
This data is published at ITL2 level and therefore local authorities may show identical values. Data is not available for England or English Regions.
- Modified
- 12 Jan 2024
- Data last updated
- 15 Jan 2024
- Short label
- Index of sociocultural advantage
- Status
- Live
- Output precision
- 2
- Polarity
- a high value is good
- Measure
- Index
- Dataset
- Composite measure of social mobility
- Collection
- State of the Nation
- Source
- Social Mobility Commission
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