Publication type
Journal Article
Author
Publication date
March 15, 2016
Summary:
Cross-regional correlations between average IQ and socio-economic development have been reported for many different countries. This paper analyses data on average IQ and a range of socio-economic variables at the local authority level in the UK. Local authorities are administrative bodies in local government; there are over 400 in the UK, and they contain anywhere from tens of thousands to more than a million people. The paper finds that local authority IQ is positively related to indicators of health, socio-economic status and tertiary industrial activity; and is negatively related to indicators of disability, unemployment and single parenthood. A general socio-economic factor is correlated with local authority IQ at r = .56. This correlation increases to r = .65 when correcting for measurement error in the estimates of IQ.
Published in
Intelligence
Volume and page numbers
Volume: 55 , p.90 -94
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intell.2016.02.001
ISSN
1602896
Subjects
#524033