ABSTRACT
As well as the disadvantages in income, housing and environment for which comparisons have been made in earlier chapters, there are other forms of disadvantage to explore. In this chapter we confine ourselves to those on which the two area studies provide comparable data. Education and health are the most obvious, if only because there has been such widespread concern about the relative disadvantages of inner city areas in these respects. A further field in which data for the two study areas can be compared is that of holidays and leisure. We have not been able to include disadvantages in employment; a special investigation was made of the local labour market as part of the Lambeth Inner Area Study (Shankland et al., 1977, ch. 4; also Shankland Cox Partnership/Institute of Community Studies, 1974 and 1977b), but there is unfortunately no comparable material for Folie-Méricourt. At the time of the surveys, unemployment was relatively low in the two districts, as in Britain and France, although it began to increase soon afterwards.
