This paper compares consumption and income as measures of households' living standards using UK data. It presents … one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds … composition of households with low living standards if these are identified with consumption rather than income. …

Background: Poor health increases the likelihood of experiencing poverty by reducing a person’s ability to work and … impact that healthcare costs have on household living standards in a high-income country with a long established universal … health care system. We undertook this analysis using a longitudinal, nationally representative dataset – the Household Income …

How have household incomes evolved since the onset of the financial crisis? How has the gap between rich and poor … changed? How have living standards changed over time for different parts of the population? How many people are in poverty and … which groups are most likely to face poverty? Each year, the government produces statistics about the distribution of income …

Official data on the distribution of household incomes in the UK are available only with a significant lag: the latest … things are likely to evolve in the coming years. Essentially, we estimate the implications for household incomes of policy …

The focus of this report is the distribution of household income in the UK. We assess the changes to average incomes …, income inequality and poverty that occurred in the latest year of data (2014-15), and put these in historical context using …

How have household incomes evolved since the onset of the financial crisis? How has the gap between rich and poor … changed? How have living standards changed over time for different parts of the population? How many people are in poverty and … which groups are most likely to face poverty? Each year, the government produces statistics about the distribution of income …

and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK … distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we use pre-pandemic data on child … poverty and material deprivation to examine the situation facing poor families with children prior to the pandemic. …

The official statistics on the distribution of income and the extent of poverty in the UK in 2011-12 were released on … relative and absolute income poverty for the whole population and among different parts of the population; •the striking long …-term changes in incomes and poverty rates for different parts of the population and different age groups; •the prospects for …