Notes
What is new
December 2008
New reports
Our latest UK-wide report was published on 8 December.
View the executive summary as PDF
View the summary as a web page
Updated UK indicators
- Low income by age group: fourth graph (by age).
- Lacking essentials: first graph (by item/activity).
- Blue collar jobs: third graph (by gender) and fourth graph (by industry).
- Older people with no private income: second graph (not contributing by income) and third graph (not contributing by age).
- Without a bank account: all graphs.
Updated Scotland indicators
- Lacking essentials: all graphs.
- Destination of school leavers: all graphs.
- Blue collar jobs: third graph (by gender) and fourth graph (by industry).
- Low pay by gender: all graphs.
- Older people with no private income: second graph (not contributing by income) and third graph (not contributing by age).
- Without a bank account: all graphs.
Updated Wales indicators
- Blue collar jobs: third graph (by gender) and fourth graph (by industry).
- Low pay by gender: all graphs.
- Older people with no private income: second graph (not contributing by income) and third graph (not contributing by age).
- Help from social services: all graphs.
- Without a bank account: all graphs.
- Dissatisfaction with local area: second graph (by reason).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Underage pregnancies: all graphs.
- Premature deaths: all graphs.
- Older people with no private income: second graph (not contributing by income) and third graph (not contributing by age).
- Without a bank account: all graphs.
Updated European indicators
- Regional cohesion: all graphs.
- Not in education or training: all graphs.
November 2008
New reports
Our latest annual Scottish analysis was published on 10th November.
View the analysis as a web page
On the same day, on behalf of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we published a report on how the problems of in-work poverty should be addressed.
Updated UK indicators
- In persistent low income: all graphs.
- Lacking consumer durables: all graphs.
- Concentrations of poor children: all graphs.
- Children with a criminal record: all graphs.
- Young adult low pay: first and second graphs (both over time), third graph (by gender) and fourth graph (by age).
- Young adults with a criminal record: all graphs.
- Numbers in low pay: all graphs.
- Location of low pay: all graphs plus map.
- Pay inequalities: all graphs.
- Excess winter deaths: all graphs.
- Help for older people from social services: second graph (by region) and third graph (by type of authority).
- Anxiety among older people: all graphs.
- Without home contents insurance: second graph (by risk of being burgled).
- Non-decent homes: all graphs.
- Energy inefficient homes: all graphs.
- Fuel poverty: all graphs.
- Victims of crime: fifth graph (worries, by type of adult).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Lacking consumer durables: all graphs.
- Location of low pay: all graphs plus map.
- Pay inequalities: all graphs.
- Working-age mental health: all graphs.
Updated Wales indicators
- Lacking consumer durables: all graphs.
- Location of low pay: all graphs plus map.
- Pay inequalities: all graphs.
- Working-age mental health: all graphs.
- Excess winter deaths: all graphs.
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Location of low income: both graphs and both maps.
- Long-term working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: first graph (over time), second graph (by LA), fifth graph (compared to Great Britain) and map.
- Long-term working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: first graph (over time)
- Pay inequalities: all graphs.
- Working-age mental health: first graph (by work status).
- Homelessness: all graphs.
Updated rural England indicators
- Low pay: all graphs.
- Help for older people from social services: all graphs.
- Anxiety among older people: all graphs.
- Non-decent homes: all graphs.
- Energy inefficient homes: all graphs.
- Fuel poverty: all graphs.
- Dissatisfaction with local area: second graph (fear of crime).
- Victims of crime: all graphs.
Updated local area data
- Low pay (district map and spreadsheet).
- Help for older people from social services (upper tier map and spreadsheet).
Website design overhaul
The whole website has been re-designed such that all the pages are now wider than before (1024 pixels rather than 800 pixels). The great advantage of this is that it makes the graphs bigger and therefore easier to read. The disadvantage is that it makes the pages more difficult to navigate when using a very low resolution screen (i.e. 800 by 600). We therefore decided that the changeover should only happen when three other things had happened, namely that the major news sites (BBC Online, etc) had moved to wider pages, that fewer than 5% of our visitors had very low resolution screens, and that these visitors spent on average less than half the time per visit than other visitors. All three of these things have now happened and hence we have implemented the change.
As part of this re-design, all the indicators have been re-numbered to get rid of the alphabetic suffices that have grown up over time.
Finally, many of the menus have been re-written so that they are dynamically generated by Javascript rather than statically defined using 'includes'. This should make the pages somewhat faster to load as only the relevant parts of the menu will now be loaded with each page. Clearly, the small number of visitors who have disabled Javascript may find that this causes them difficulties but as the previous version also included some Javascript they were probably already having some difficulties. One of the issues with making these sorts of technical changes is checking that the result works with the range of browsers that people use and the new version has been extensively tested with both Internet Explorer and Firefox.
If any of the changes above create any problems for you, please email us at info@poverty.org.uk and we'll see if we can doing anything to help.
October 2008
Updated UK indicators
- In receipt of tax credits: third graph (by income group).
- Children in receipt of tax credits: all graphs.
- Low income and council tax: all graphs.
- Premature death: first graph (over time), second graph (by region) and map.
- Pensioners with no private income: first graph (over time).
- Non-decent homes: first graph (over time) and second graph (shares by tenure).
- Fuel poverty: first graph (over time).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Low birthweight babies: all graphs.
- Premature death: first graph (over time), second graph (compared with elsewhere in Great Britain), third graph (by LA), map and fourth graph (for those aged 55 to 64).
- Pensioners with no private income: first graph (over time).
- Excess winter deaths: first graph (over time).
- Homelessness: all graphs and map.
- Burglaries: first graph (over time) and second graph (by local authority).
Updated Wales indicators
- Low birthweight babies: second graph (by population group).
- Underage pregnancies: second graph (by LA) and map.
- Educational attainment at age 11: first graph (over time), second graph (by LA) and map.
- School exclusions: all graphs.
- Premature deaths: all graphs and map.
- Limiting long-standing illness: first graph (by social class).
- Pensioners with no private income: first graph (over time).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: second graph (by reason) and third graph (by age group).
- Long-term working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: second graph (by age group).
- Pensioners with no private income: first graph (compared to Great Britain).
- Fuel poverty: all graphs.
Updated rural England indicators
- Educational attainment at age 16: all graphs.
- Premature deaths: all graphs.
Updated local area data
- Homelessness (district map and spreadsheet).
- Premature deaths (district map and spreadsheet).
September 2008
Updated UK indicators
- Numbers in low income: all bar the last graph.
- Location of low income: first graph (by region).
- The impact of housing costs: all graphs.
- Low income by family type: all graphs.
- Low income and ethnicity: first five graphs (i.e. all the graphs except those requiring a inner/outer London split).
- Low income by gender: all graphs.
- Income inequalities: all bar the fifth graph.
- Children in low-income households: all bar the fourth graph.
- Looked-after children: first graph (over time) and third graph (status at age 19).
- Young adults in low-income households: all graphs.
- Low income by work status: all graphs.
- Low income and disability: first graph (over time), second graph (by work status) and third graph (by family type).
- Working age low income by age: all graphs.
- Older people in low-income households: all graphs but not the map.
- Without home contents insurance: all graphs.
- Polarisation by housing tenure: first graph (over time, income).
- Housing benefit: second graph (by group).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Numbers in low income: all graphs.
- Low income by age group: all graphs.
- Low income by family type: all graphs.
- Income inequalities: all graphs.
- Children in low-income households: all graphs.
- Low income by work status: all graphs.
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: fourth graph (by LA) and map.
- Older people in low-income households: all bar the last graph and map.
Updated Wales indicators
- Numbers in low income: all graphs.
- Low income by age group: all graphs.
- Low income by family type: all graphs.
- Income inequalities: all graphs.
- Children in low-income households: all graphs.
- Low income by work status: all graphs.
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: fourth graph (by LA) and map.
- Older people in low-income households: all bar the last graph and map.
- Access to primary care: all graphs.
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Numbers in low income: all bar the last graph.
- Low income by age group: all graphs.
- Low income by family type: all graphs.
- Disability living allowance recipients: first graph (over time).
- Children in low-income households: all graphs.
- Low income by work status: all graphs.
- Low income and disability: all graphs.
- Older people in low-income households: first graph (compared to Great Britain) and second graph (by family type).
- Without home contents insurance: all graphs.
Updated rural England indicators
- Young adult unemployment: all graphs.
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: all graphs.
- Access to training: all graphs.
- Without qualifications: all graphs.
Updated local area data
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work (district map and spreadsheet).
August 2008
Updated UK indicators
- State benefit levels: third graph (share by with/without children) and fourth graph (shares by reasons).
- Working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: all graphs and maps.
- Long-term working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: all graphs.
- Concentrations of low income: all graphs.
- blue collar jobs: fourth graph (by region).
- Ability to travel: third graph (cars by household income) and fifth graph (cars by gender).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Location of low income: all graphs and maps.
- Working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: all graphs and maps.
- Long-term working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: all graphs.
- Underage pregnancies: all graphs.
- Young adult suicides: all graphs.
- Concentrations of low income: all graphs.
- blue collar jobs: first graph (over time).
- Premature death: fifth graph (by local authority for selected diseases).
Updated Wales indicators
- Location of low income: all graphs and maps.
- Working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: all graphs and maps.
- Long-term working-age recipients of out-of-work benefits: all graphs.
- Concentrations of low income: all graphs.
- blue collar jobs: first graph (over time) and fifth graph (compared with elsewhere in the UK).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Not in education, employment or training: fourth graph (by religion).
- blue collar jobs: seventh graph (compared to Great Britain).
Updated rural England indicators
- Out-of-work benefit recipients: all graphs.
Updated local area data
- In receipt of key out-of-work benefits (district map and spreadsheet).
- In receipt of key out-of-work benefits (ward-level map and spreadsheet).
- Pension Credit recipients (district map and spreadsheet).
- Pension Credit recipients (ward-level map and spreadsheet).
- Permanent school exclusions (upper tier map and spreadsheet).
July 2008
Report on fuel poverty
- See the New Policy Institute report for the Eaga Partnership Charitable Trust entitled Cold and poor: an analysis of the link between fuel poverty and low income.
- See updated graphs for the indicator on fuel poverty: third graph (by income and energy efficiency of the home), fourth graph (by income and household type) and fifth graph (by income and type of area).
Updated UK indicators
- Low birthweight babies: first graph (over time) and second graph (by family type).
- Infant deaths: first graph (over time).
- Underage pregnancies: second graph (by social class).
- School exclusions: all graphs.
- Without a basic qualification at age 19: first graph (over time), second graph (by gender) and fourth graph (by region).
- Not in education, employment or training: first graph (by gender) and second graph (by ethnic group).
- Drug use among young adults: all graphs.
- Unmet housing need: first graph (over time).
- Housing Benefit: third graph (delays).
- Victims of crime: first graph (over time), second graph (by group), third graph (by region), fourth graph (worries) and sixth graph (perceptions).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Without a basic qualification at age 19: all graphs.
Updated Wales indicators
- Without a basic qualification at age 19: all graphs.
- Burglary: all graphs.
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Without a basic qualification at age 19: all graphs.
Updated rural England indicators
- School exclusions: all graphs.
June 2008
On 10th June, the government published its latest Households below average income report, covering the period up to 2006/07. In summary, the 2006/07 poverty numbers are very similar to those for 2005/06 (the odd change of 100,000 here or there could just be a rounding issue). The main change seems to be something of a rise in pensioner poverty. Also, household median income hardly rose at all, so the lack of any reduction in relative poverty is not because the poverty threshold rose. Obviously, all very disappointing.
Note that the publication of the report does not mean that we will be able to update the analyses on this website any time soon. Rather, that requires the government to release the underlying survey data to us and they have indicated to us that they will not be able to do this until August or September. As soon as we receive the survey data from them, we will update all the low income graphs.
Updated UK indicators
- blue collar jobs: first graph (over time).
- Older people take-up of benefits: all graphs.
- Homelessness: fifth graph (in temporary accommodation - over time) and sixth graph (in temporary accommodation - by region).
- Housing Benefit: first graph (take-up).
- In the interests of simplicity, many of the graphs that were previously for the age group 25 to retirement have been changed to be all working age. The relevant indicators are low income by work status, lone parents and work, low pay by industry, low pay and ethnicity, insecure at work, without access to training, without educational qualifications, mental health and obesity. The only indicators that remain focussed on the 25 to retirement age group are those relating to disability. This is because the high prevalence of low pay etc among younger adults combined with the low prevalence of disability in that age group arguably distorts, and certainly changes, the comparison between disabled and non-disabled people.
Updated Wales indicators
- Homelessness: fifth graph (in temporary accommodation).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- blue collar jobs: first graph (over time by industry), second graph (within the production sector), third graph (over time by gender), fourth graph (shares by gender) and fifth graph (shares by industry).
May 2008
Updated UK indicators
- State benefit levels: first graph (vis-à-vis earnings) and second graph (vis-à-vis prices).
- Child accidental deaths: first graph (over time).
- Young adult suicides: first graph (over time) and second graph (by gender).
- Insecure at work: first graph (over time).
- Help from social services: first graph (over time).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Educational attainment at age 16: first graph (over time), second graph (by level of deprivation) and third graph (school leavers).
- Insecure at work: first graph (over time).
Updated Wales indicators
- Insecure at work: first graph (over time).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Educational attainment at age 16: all graphs.
- Not in education, employment or training: third graph (by gender).
- Low pay by gender: all graphs.
- Location of low pay: first graph (by district) and map.
- Victims of crime: first graph (by deprivation).
Updated European indicators
- Low educational attainment: all graphs.
April 2008
Updated UK indicators
- In receipt of tax credits: first graph (over time) and second graph (by region).
- Low birthweight babies: third graph (by region).
- Infant deaths: second graph (by region).
- Looked-after children: second graph (educational attainment).
- Impact of qualifications on work: all graphs.
- Work and disability: all graphs.
- Work by ethnic group: first graph (over time), second graph (by ethnic group) and fourth graph (workless households).
- Low pay and disability: all graphs.
- Low pay by ethnic group: all graphs.
- Working age longstanding illness/disability: first graph (over time, %), second graph (over time, numbers) and third graph (by income).
- Mental health: all graphs.
- Adult obesity: all graphs.
- Older people longstanding illness/disability: first graph (over time, %), second graph (over time, numbers) and third graph (by income).
- Polarisation by tenure: second graph (work, over time), third graph (work, by age) and fourth graph (work, by region).
- Overcrowding: first graph (over time).
Updated Scotland indicators
- In receipt of tax credits: all graphs.
- Infant deaths: second graph (by LA) and third graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Impact of qualifications on work: all graphs.
- Work and disability: all graphs.
Updated Wales indicators
- In receipt of tax credits: all graphs.
- Low birthweight babies: first graph (over time), third graph (by LA) and fourth graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Infant deaths: second graph (by LA) and third graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Impact of qualifications on work: all graphs.
- Work and disability: all graphs.
- Homelessness: first graph (over time), second graph (by household type), third graph (by reason), fourth graph (by LA) and map.
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- In receipt of tax credits: all graphs.
- Infant deaths: second graph (by LA) and third graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Impact of qualifications on work: all graphs.
- Work and disability: all graphs.
- Work and religion: all graphs.
- Childcare provision: second graph (state support from tax credits).
- Polarisation by tenure: first graph (over time) and fourth graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Victims of crime: second graph (fear of crime).
Updated rural England indicators
- In receipt of tax credits: all graphs.
Updated European indicators
- Long-term unemployment rate: all graphs.
- Long-term unemployment share: all graphs.
Updated local authority district data
- Low birthweight babies (map and spreadsheet).
- Infant deaths (map and spreadsheet).
- In receipt of tax credits (spreadsheet).
- Below Level 4 at Key Stage 2 (map and spreadsheet).
- Fewer than 5 GCSEs at age 16 (map and spreadsheet).
March 2008
Updated UK indicators
- Children in workless households: first graph (numbers over time), second graph (%s over time), third graph (by household type) and fourth graph (by region).
- Not in education, employment or training (NEETs): first graph (over time) and second graph (by region).
- Young adult unemployment: all graphs.
- Young adult low pay: fifth graph (rates by industry) and sixth graph (shares by industry).
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: all graphs.
- Work and lone parents: all graphs.
- Workless households: first graph (over time) and second graph (shares by household type).
- Low pay by industry: all graphs.
- Insecure at work: second graph (reasons for temporary/part-time), third graph (temporary contracts) and fourth graph (trade union membership).
- Access to training: all graphs.
- Without educational qualifications: first graph (over time), second graph (by age) and third graph (by region).
- Homelessness: first graph (over time), second graph (by region), third graph (by reason), fourth graph (by ethnic group) and seventh graph (length of stay in temporary accommodation).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Children in workless households: all graphs.
- Not in education, employment or training (NEETs): all graphs.
- Young adult unemployment: all graphs.
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: first graph (over time), second graph (by age), third graph (by reason) and fifth graph (compared to the rest of the UK).
- Work and lone parents: all graphs.
- Workless households: all graphs.
- Low pay by industry: all graphs.
- Insecure at work: second graph (reasons for temporary/part-time), third graph (temporary contracts) and fourth graph (trade union membership).
- Access to training: all graphs.
Updated Wales indicators
- Children in workless households: all graphs.
- Not in education, employment or training (NEETs): first graph (over time) and second graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Young adult unemployment: all graphs.
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: first graph (over time), second graph (by age), third graph (by reason) and fifth graph (compared to the rest of the UK).
- Work and lone parents: all graphs.
- Workless households: all graphs.
- Low pay by industry: all graphs.
- Insecure at work: second graph (reasons for temporary/part-time), third graph (temporary contracts) and fourth graph (trade union membership).
- Access to training: all graphs.
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Lacking consumer durables: all graphs.
- Children in workless households: all graphs.
- Educational attainment at age 11: all graphs.
- Not in education, employment or training (NEETs): first graph (over time) and second graph (compared to elsewhere in the UK).
- Young adult unemployment: all graphs.
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work: all graphs.
- Work and lone parents: all graphs.
- Workless households: all graphs.
- Low pay by industry: all graphs.
- Insecure at work: all graphs.
- Access to training: all graphs.
- Without educational qualifications: all graphs.
- Overcrowding: first graph (over time) and second graph (by tenure).
Updated rural England indicators
All the local authority analysis have been updated for DEFRA's new rural/urban classification system. These comprise:
- Homelessness: all graphs.
Updated local authority district data
- Homelessness (map and spreadsheet).
February 2008
Updated UK indicators
- Underage pregnancies: first graph (over time) and third graph (by region).
- Young adults without a basic qualification: third graph (by age).
- In mortgage arrears: first graph (over time).
Updated Scotland indicators
- Without home contents insurance: all graphs.
Updated Wales indicators
- Underage pregnancies: first graph (over time) and third graph (compared with Great Britain regions).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Concentrations of poor children: all graphs.
- Childcare provision: first graph (by LA).
January 2008
Updated UK indicators
- Numbers in low income (fourth graph).
- Location of low income (second graph).
- Educational attainment at age 11 (first three graphs).
- Educational attainment at age 16 (fifth, sixth and seventh graphs).
- Low income and disability (fourth graph).
- Working age limiting longstanding illness (fourth graph).
- Older people limiting longstanding illness (fourth graph).
- Access to transport (second graph).
- Overcrowding (second and fourth graphs).
- In mortgage arrears (second graph).
- Satisfaction with local area (first two graphs).
Updated Scotland indicators
- School exclusions (first graph).
- Limiting longstanding illness (first graph).
- Older people helped to live at home (all graphs).
- Access to transport (all graphs).
- Access to services (all graphs).
- Dissatisfaction with public services (all graphs).
- Overcrowding (first two graphs).
- Dissatisfaction with local area (all graphs).
- Feeling unsafe out at night (all graphs).
- Working in a voluntary capacity (all graphs).
Updated Wales indicators
- Concentrations of poor children (all graphs).
- Educational attainment at age 16 (third and fifth graphs).
- Help from social services (all graphs).
Updated Northern Ireland indicators
- Underage pregnancies (all graphs).
Updated European Union indicators
- Poverty by age and gender (all graphs).
- Poverty by work status (all graphs).
- Poverty by household type (all graphs).
- Poverty by housing tenure (all graphs).
- Poverty line (all graphs).
- Income inequality (all graphs).
- Poverty gap (all graphs).
- Poverty rate by threshold (all graphs).
- Poverty rate by fixed threshold (all graphs).
- Poverty rate before social transfers (all graphs).
- Income inequality: gini coefficient (all graphs).
- Low educational attainment (all graphs).
Updated rural England indicators
All the local authority analysis have been updated for DEFRA's new rural/urban classification system. These comprise:
- Numbers in low income (all graphs).
- Low income by age group (all graphs).
- Low income by family type (all graphs).
- Income inequalities (all graphs).
- Out-of-work benefit recipients (all graphs).
- In receipt of tax credits (all graphs).
- Children in low-income households (all graphs).
- Underage pregnancies (all graphs).
- Educational attainment at age 11 (all graphs).
- Educational attainment at age 16 (all graphs).
- School exclusions (all graphs).
- Young adult unemployment (all graphs).
- Low income by work status (all graphs).
- Lacking, but wanting, paid work (all graphs).
- Low pay (all graphs).
- Access to training (all graphs).
- Without qualifications (all graphs).
- Premature deaths (all graphs).
- Longstanding illness/disability (all graphs).
- Older people in low income (all graphs).
- Older people with no private income (all graphs).
- Older people helped to live at home (all graphs).
- Without a bank account (all graphs).
- Access to transport (all graphs).
- Polarisation by housing tenure (all graphs).
- Without central heating (all graphs).
- Homelessness (all graphs).
- In mortgage arrears (all graphs).
- Satisfaction with local area (first graph).
Updated local authority district data
- Educational attainment at age 11 (map and spreadsheet).
- Educational attainment at age 16 (map and spreadsheet).
- Low birthweight babies (map).
- Homelessness (map).