the feasibility of working from home and in the ability to smooth consumption under temporary income shocks. …

. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure … incomes. Mismatches arise because self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal …

responsible for elderlypeople’s living standards. Secondly, this article analyses private andpublic income transfers to elderly … to the income of the elderly households,particularly poorer households, while public transfers do not make anysignificant …

Gateway, London’s major growth area.Nearly half the families are lone parents and half are from an ethnic minoritybackground … havevery little control, and parents are upset by difficult housing andenvironmental conditions that they feel powerless to …

Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in … children, but most families valued theirlocal community.[...] …

. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families … problems and strengths,children’s education, and the direction of change.[...] …

council estate four miles from the centre of Leeds. It is predominantly councilrented, housing low-income, mainly white …

,started in April 2003.• In an initial interview in March 2003details of income and circumstanceswere collected. Each family … nominateda main respondent, who was trainedin completing income diaries (eachcovering two weeks). The respondentswere then … telephoned fortnightlythroughout the 2003-04 financial yearto collect details of income in each ofthe previous two weeks …