ABSTRACT
Within Scotland the greatest concentration of people and housing is found in the Clydeside conurbation, at the heart of which is the city of Glasgow (1979 pop. 794,316). Since the reorganisation of local government in 1973 Glasgow has been a constituent district of the Strathclyde region which contains half of Scotland's population. The first regional report prepared in 1976 identified the high level of unemployment and the severity of urban deprivation as the two major problems facing Glasgow, and these key issues underlie the regional authority's strategies for development and resource allocation. A clear indication of the nature and severity of those problems can be gained by examining, at the level of individual enumeration districts, a range of census statistics covering the broad themes of housing, demography, employment and socio-economic structure.
