By sector: primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary OR employed/self-employed OR full-time/part-time OR temporary/permanent
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Which of the 4 classifications is the most significant?
Temporary/permanent - because of income insecurity
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Outline 3 possible social impacts of employment.
1) Level of employment impacts on all quality of life 2) type of employment is reflected by education and skills 3) need for both parents to be working may have impacts on children
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Outline 3 possible consequences of large inequalities in income.
1) Poorer health, pockets of deprivation + poverty 2) marked social segregation with residential areas 3) higher incidence of crime, particularly burglary & robbery
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What are demographic characteristics?
Aspects of a population such as its age structure, gender balance, ethnicities
Deindustrialization, decentralisation of services from CBDs
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Give examples of demographic change.
Immigration increasing ethnicity, ageing population of rural places
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Give reasons for demographic changes in places.
1) Ageing population 2) Arrival of immigrant groups 3) New employment opportunities
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Give reasons for functional change in places.
1) Profitability of individual activities declines 2) Locational needs or source availability change 3) Advent of new technology and new functions 4) Activities that are replaced by others on the up.
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What is the IMD?
The index of multiple deprivation is the official measure of relative deprivation for small areas (or neighbourhoods) in England.
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Explain why the IMD is widely used to monitor change in the UK.
It uses relevant, reliable data from the national census. Data is also available for very small areas and it is therefore possible to detect small pockets of deprivation.
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What does the IMD cover?
Income, education, health, employment, crime, accessibility to services & housing, and the living environment.
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Give 3 other ways of measuring change.
1) Time sets of employment or unemployment data 2) Analysis of land-use change 3) Incidence of new building
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Explain the value of geographic information systems.
It is a device for capturing, storing, checking and displaying spatial data by computer.
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As the GIS is geospatial, why is this useful?
It can show layers of data on one map and by doing so, it helps in the analysis and understanding of distributions and relationships. Maps may be superimposed to show ho w a place has changed over time.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Which of the 4 classifications is the most significant?
Back
Temporary/permanent - because of income insecurity
Card 3
Front
Outline 3 possible social impacts of employment.
Back
Card 4
Front
Outline 3 possible consequences of large inequalities in income.
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