People, spaces and places - The Visualization of Spatial Social Structure - page 48

Local Government Districts
Annotated base map, shaded by
the 1981 unemployment rate.
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Figure 2.10 These are the 459 areas that local councils (elected by ward) gov-
erned. Spending was allocated by them and local taxes (the rates) collected. As
a result, these are also the units for which most accurate mid-year population
estimates were made. Many separate areas of high unemployment appear and the
Southern Scottish islands are now under the name of 'Argyll and Bute'.