Economically active includes employees, self-employed, participants on a government training scheme, unemployed and the temporarily sick. In January a total of 5005 people in Tayside had been unemployed for more than 12 months. Long-term unemployment has fallen over the last year. Economically active includes employees, self-employed, participants on a government training scheme, unemployed and the temporarily sick. In common with the rest of Scotland, just over half of all households in Tayside are owner-occupiers.
Fife has a very similar distribution of house prices to Scotland.
This pattern is reflected in median house price. Rents in Tayside fell slightly over the year, while those in Fife rose higher than the Scottish average. Rents in Tayside and Fife are in the highest quartile of Scottish housing association rents. These differences need to be explained by reference to factors such as income, building type and subsidy levels.