Version: 1.0.0 | Published: 3 Feb 2026 | Updated: 38 days ago
Summary
Description:
The Financial Precarity Classification (FPC) is a geodemographic classification for Great Britain (GB) that captures the spatial distribution of financial insecurity at a small-area level.
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Documentation
Documentation:
The Financial Precarity Classification (FPC) is a geodemographic classification for Great Britain (GB) that captures the spatial distribution of financial insecurity at a small-area level. The classification is developed to reflect financial precarity as a condition shaped by multiple interconnected factors, including poor-quality and unpredictable employment, unmanaged debt, insecure asset wealth, and insufficient financial resources. It draws on neighbourhood-level indicators covering employment patterns, income levels, asset holdings, debt obligations, and lifestyle characteristics. Using small-area measurements, the classification maps financial precarity at a fine spatial scale, enabling comparisons between local areas and revealing how economic vulnerability varies across different geographical contexts, including rural and urban areas, city centres and peripheries, and coastal and inland communities across Great Britain.
## Content
The FPC data for each LSOA21, in CSV and GPKG format, is available on application. An overview of the input variable distribution (Data Summary), input variable dictionary and classification profiles (pen portraits) can be downloaded directly from this page.
## Quality, Representation and Bias
All processing steps and methodological details are documented in a peer-reviewed paper published in *Computers, Environment and Urban Systems*.
Coverage
Spatial
Spatial Coverage:
Great Britain
Temporal
Frequency:
SNAPSHOT
Provenance
Author 1
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The data for this research have been provided by the Geographic Data Service
(GeoDS.ac.uk), a Smart Data Research UK Investment: ES/Z504464/1.
Origin
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Geographic