| The Poverty Site |  |
| The UK site for statistics on poverty and social exclusion. |
This site monitors what is happening to poverty and social exclusion in the UK. The material is organised around 100 statistical indicators covering all aspects of the subject, from income and work to health and education.
The indicators and graphs can be viewed by age group or by subject using the menu on the left.
The material covers all parts of the United Kingdom, with specific sections for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
All data is from official sources and is the latest available. All graphs and text are updated whenever new data becomes available.
The INDICATORS
Browse the UK indicators, or those for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, rural England or the European Union.
THE REPORTS
The twelfth annual UK report was published in December 2009. Reports are also available for Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, rural England, ethnicity, disability and devolution.
WHAT IS NEW
Each month, all the analyses for which there is new data are updated. The latest published report (2010) is on the impact of devolution.
SUBJECT OF THE WEEK: children in workless households
The UK has a higher proportion of its children living in workless households than any other European Union (EU) country. It is almost twice that of both the EU average and that in France and Germany. It is also one of the few EU countries where the proportion of children who are in workless households is much higher than the proportion of working-age people who are in workless households. Read more ...
Disclaimer
All statistics which are Crown Copyright are reproduced with permission from the controller of
Her Majesty's Stationery Office. Much of the data presented on this website was made available
through the UK Data Archive. Neither the original collectors of the data nor the Archive bear
any responsibility for the analyses presented. The same applies for all other data used in this
website including that from a variety of government departments.
| Produced by Guy Palmer with support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation |