In this paper, special tabulations of microdata from the 1981 Census of Scotland are used
to examine patterns of disadvantage at the household level. The overlap of six criteria of
household disadvantage is described by region, settlement size, urban subarea, household
type, and housing submarket and in relation to ‘conventional’ ecologically-defined areas
of deprivation. It is shown that disadvantaged households are disproportionately
concentrated in the worst-off areas, though not overwhelmingly so, and that there are
distinctive spatial variations in the nature of multiple
disadvantage.
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