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Households below average income: 1994/95 to 2010/11
Data on potential living standards as determined by disposable income in 2010/11, changes in income patterns over time and income mobility.
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Households Below Average Income: full publication
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Contents
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Chapter 1
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Chapter 2: The income distribution
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Tables 2.1tr, 2.1db and 2.2db
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Chart 2.1
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Tables 2.1ts-2.4ts (time series)
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Chapter 3: Whole population
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Tables 3.1tr-3.4tr (trends)
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Tables 3.1db-3.2db (quintiles)
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Tables 3.3db-3.4db (composition)
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Tables 3.5db-3.6db (risk)
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Tables 3.1ts-3.3ts (populations time series)
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Tables 3.4ts-3.9ts (composition time series)
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Tables 3.10ts-3.15ts (risk time series)
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Chapter 4: Children
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Tables 4.1tr-4.5tr (trends)
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Tables 4.1db -4.2db (quintiles)
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Tables 4.3db -4.4db (composition)
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Tables 4.5db-4.6db (risk)
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Tables 4.7db-4.8db (material deprivation)
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Tables 4.1ts-4.5ts (populations time series)
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Tables 4.6ts-4.13ts (composition time series)
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Tables 4.14ts-4.25ts (risk time series)
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Chapter 5: Working-age adults
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Tables 5.1tr-5.6tr (trends)
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Tables 5.1db-5.3db (quintiles)
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Tables 5.4db-5.6db (composition)
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Tables 5.7db-5.9db (risk)
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Tables 5.1ts-5.3ts (populations time series)
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Tables 5.4ts-5.9ts (composition time series)
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Tables 5.10ts-5.15ts (risk time series)
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Chapter 6: Pensioners
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Tables 6.1tr-6.7tr (trends)
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Tables 6.1db-6.2db (quintiles)
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Tables 6.3db-6.4db (composition)
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Tables 6.5db-6.6db (risk)
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Tables 6.7db-6.8db (material deprivation composition)
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Tables 6.9db-6.10db (material deprivation risk)
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Table 6.11db (material deprivation)
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Tables 6.1ts-6.4ts (populations time series)
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Tables 6.8ts-6.17ts (risk time series)
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Chapter 7: Low-income dynamics
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Table 7.1tr
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Appendix 1: glossary and definitions of concepts and technical terms
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Appendix 2: methodology
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Tables A2.1-A2.6
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Appendix 3: child material deprivation
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Tables A3.1-A3.2
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Detail
This is the 23rd edition of the households below average income (HBAI) series.
Chapters
This section includes an overview of the background, changes over time and shows:
- summary of key findings
- distribution of disposable income
- how different client groups (children, working-age adults and pensioners) are distributed across income quintiles
- the percentage of each client group below various fractions of median income
- the composition by client group of the total number of people below these thresholds
- material deprivation (children and pensioner chapters only)
- decile medians and quintile medians in real terms
- population estimates for key groups
- measures of income inequality
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of contemporary median income
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of base-year median income
- persistent low income statistics
Appendices
This section includes the glossary and definitions of the terms used in the report, and more detail on HBAI methodology.
Find out how low income is measured.
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