Notes
What is new
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 employment: 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 employment: 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-a-vis earnings) and second graph (vis-a-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 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 GB 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 adults without a basic qualification (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).