Official Statistics

Income Dynamics, 2010 to 2018

Income Dynamics statistics look at changes in household income including a measure of persistent low income. The data is for 2010 to 2018.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 26 March 2020
• Last updated: 15 September 2020
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  1. 15 September 2020

     Revised statistical release and background information and methodology. DWP analysts identified an error in the wording on page 14 of the report. The text referred to entries into and exits from ‘persistent low income’, whereas it should have referred to entries into and exits from ‘low income’. The same error was repeated once in the background information and methodology. The text has now been corrected in both documents.

  2. 26 March 2020

     First published.

Documents

Income Dynamics: Income movements and the persistence of low incomes, 2010 to 2018

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-207-1

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Income Dynamics background information and methodology

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Income Dynamics: Persistent low income trends

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Income Dynamics: Individuals in persistent low income

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Income Dynamics: Children in persistent low income

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Income Dynamics: Working-age adults in persistent low income

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Income Dynamics: Pensioners in persistent low income

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Income Dynamics: Movements between quintiles

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Income Dynamics: Quintile movements over time

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Income Dynamics: Low-income entry and exit rates

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Income Dynamics methodology tables

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Details

Income Dynamics provides estimates of the likelihood of the same people being persistently in low income in at least 3 out of 4 years and of mobility across the income distribution.

It does this using a survey which follows respondents over time. This is unlike the survey underlying the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series, which looks at the distribution of incomes with different samples each year.