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Tax, benefits and household income

Household incomes and consumption patterns provide a lens on day-to-day living standards. We explore these measures here, with a specific focus on how changes to the tax and benefit system are affecting them, and the experience of poverty for different generations over the life course.

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Relative poverty before housing costs

Relative poverty before housing costs

ICTBHIpovertybhcage
ICTBHIpovertybhccohort

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Notes

Financial years after 1993 (so 1994 refers to 1994-95). Data for 1992 and 1993 have been interpolated. Northern Ireland data is missing prior to 2002. People are in relative poverty if they live in households with equivalised incomes below 60 per cent of the median in each year.

Source

RF analysis of IFS, Households Below Average Income (1961-91); DWP, Family Resources Survey (1994-latest)

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Notes

Data for 1992 and 1993 have been interpolated. Northern Ireland data is missing prior to 2002. People are in relative poverty if they live in households with equivalised incomes below 60 per cent of the median in each year.

Source

RF analysis of IFS, Households Below Average Income (1961-91); DWP, Family Resources Survey (1994-latest)

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