Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 1994/95-2003/04
Figures in this publication use a new grossing regime which has been devised to improve the accuracy of regional-level counts. It incorporates changes in population counts, and related counts, following the 2001 Census. The main results in this publication use the new grossing regime, while key results, using the most up-to-date population counts but the previous grossing regime have been provided in appendix 3. FRS-based estimates for years prior to 2003/04 in either the 'Opportunity for all' style tables, or the supplementary tables, may have been subject to small or modest revisions due to these grossing changes.
Contents
Chapters
This section includes an overview of the background 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 mean and median income,
- the composition by client group of the total number of people below these thresholds, and
- income mobility, persistence of low income and transitions into and out of low income.
Supplementary tables
This section focuses on changes over time in:
- population estimates for key groups,
- measures of income inequality,
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of contemporary mean or median income,
- median income by quintile for a range of groups, and
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of base-year mean or median income.
The supplementary tables generally show time series from 1994/5 to 2003/04 with estimates based on data from the Family Resources Survey. However, the tables in section H cover a longer time period (1979 to 2003/04) with results for earlier years drawn from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES).
Appendices
This section includes the glossary and definitions of the terms used in the report, more detail on HBAI methodology and additional analyses including:
- Headline results using the interim grossing regime.
- Northern Ireland and UK results.
- Analysis of consumer durables.
- Headline results using Modified OECD equivalisation
- Decomposition of changes in number of individuals in different low-income groups over time.