Therefore, the NIFC uses the ONS data which underpins these: working-age economic inactivity, unemployment, relative proportion of people in poverty (households with disposable household income below 60% of that region’s median in that year), persistent low income (been in relative low income for at least 3 out of past 4 years), rate of child poverty. o socio-economic factors – for example using the State of the Nation publication from the Social Mobility Commission to compare regions on qualification levels, wages, proportion of high-paid jobs, rate of job creation and new...