Poverty and inequality in the UK: 2007

摘要: This Briefing Note provides an update on trends in living standards, income inequality and poverty. It uses the same approach to measuring poverty as government employs its Households Below Average Income (HBAI) publication. The analysis is based latest HBAI figures (published 27 March 2007), providing information about incomes up year 2005-06. measure of used net household weekly income, which has been adjusted take account family size ('equivalised'). amounts provided below are expressed equivalent for a couple with no children, all changes given real terms (i.e. after adjusting inflation). For first time recent years, data available whole United Kingdom, not just Great Britain, but Northern Ireland only from 2002-03. Some comparisons over Britain only, others will compare statistics GB before 2002-03 those UK afterwards. PLEASE NOTE: On 23 April 2007, Department Work Pensions announced that error had occurred when producing was dataset therefore suffers similar errors. In response revisions by DWP May we have now updated our findings revised press release produced summary.