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Indicator summary
Significant progress has been made on a range of indicators since the baseline (1997 for most indicators), with 34 of our indicators moving in the right direction. For example, we have seen improvements for: the proportion of children who live in housing below the set level of decency; smoking rates for manual socio-economic groups; the proportion of older people living in low income; and the attainment gap at Key Stage 2 (11-year-olds).
There are six indicators for which the data are not moving in the right direction – the education gap for looked-after children; infant mortality; obesity for children aged 2 to 10 years; families in temporary accommodation; people contributing to a non-state pension; and life expectancy at birth. Strategies are in place to tackle these problems.
There are 12 indicators for which no trend assessments are possible either because there are insufficient data available to determine a trend or because the data are not comparable with previous years.
Progress since the baseline (mostly 1997) |
Number of indicators |
|---|---|
| Data moving in the right direction | 34 |
| Broadly constant trend | 7 |
| Data moving in the wrong direction | 6 |
| Cannot determine trend | 12 |
| Total | 59 |
| Note: There are 41 main indicators, some of which have sub-indicators. This means there are 59 indicators in total. | |
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