Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 1994/95-2006/07
This is the nineteenth edition of the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. This report presents information on potential living standards as determined by disposable income in 2006/07, changes in income patterns over time and income mobility..
A full copy of the publication can be accessed here: HBAI 1994/95-2006/07 (1.22MB)
Contents
- Contents (30KB)

Chapters
This section includes an overview of the background, changes over time 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)
- 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, and
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of base-year median income.
Supplementary tables
The supplementary tables can now be found within the relevant chapters as the time series tables. E.g. the supplementary tables from section E are now in Chapter 4 Children.
The supplementary tables that used to make up section H covering estimates drawn from the Family Expenditure Survey (FES) have also been moved into the relevant chapters as the trends tables
See the Comparison of old and new table numbers section (pages 7-10) of the publication contents for details
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