CSMP15/16 - ➗ Inequality

Question 1

What is social inequality?

Answer 1

• The unequal distribution and unequal access to factors such as income, housing, education or health across a population

Question 2

What are the indicators for measuring social inequality?

Answer 2

• Life expectancy
• Unemployment rate
• HDI
• Housing tenure
• Adult literacy
• GNI
• Gini coefficient

Question 3

What is The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD)?

Answer 3

• The Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) is a relative measure of deprivation.
• The more deprived an area is, the higher the IMD score but the lower the rank.
• The IMD combines information from 7 areas to produce an overall relative measure of deprivation

Question 4

What are the seven characteristics that the IMD combines?

Answer 4

• Income
• Employment
• Health and disability
• Education, skills and training
• Barriers to Housing and Services
• Living environment
• Crime

Question 5

What would happen if Cambridge University did not exist?

Answer 5

• £50 billion and over 150,000 jobs would be needed to replace the University’s impact on the economy

Question 6

What is the road distance between London and Cambridge?

Answer 6

• The road distance between London and Cambridge is 57.7 miles

Question 7

How much companies are there in Silicon Fen, and how much revenue do they bring in per annum?

Answer 7

• There are currently 1500 companies in the technology and life sciences sectors based in Silicon Fen, bringing in a total revenue of £14bn per annum

Question 8

How many of the 31 colleges of Cambridge university pay their workers the “real living wage”.?

Answer 8

8 of the 31 colleges

Question 9

How much is the average house in Cambridge and how many times more is it than the city’s median salary?

Answer 9

• The average house price is £440,000 which is nearly 13 times more than the city’s high median annual salary of £34,000