Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 1994/95-2005/06 (Revised)
The data were originally released on 27 March 2007, but have since been revised because a data-processing error meant that incorrect population control totals were applied to the original dataset. A ministerial statement and press statement setting out the need for a revision were issued on 23 April.
Contents
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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 median income,
- the composition by client group of the total number of people below these thresholds, and
- material deprivation (children chapter only)
Supplementary tables
This section focuses on changes over time in:
- decile medians and quintile medians in real terms,
- population estimates for key groups,
- measures of income inequality,
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of contemporary median income,
- median income by quintile for a range of groups, and
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of base-year median income.
The supplementary tables generally show time series from 1994/5 to 2005/06 with estimates based on data from the Family Resources Survey. However, the tables in section H cover a longer time period (1979 to 2005/06) 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:
- Opportunity for All indicators
- Persistent low income statistics