We provide a critique of the methods that have been used to derive measures of income risk and draw attention to the … importance of demographic factors as a source of income risk. We also propose new measures of the contribution to total income …

Most UK surveys, including those used each year to derive the official UK income distribution statistics ("Households … Below Average Income"), provide measures of current household income rather than annual household income, which is the …'s income distribution and its trends are sensitive to the choice between current and annual income measures. The main finding …

aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …

aspects relevant to analysis of the distribution of household income. I discuss BHPS design features and how data on net … household income are derived. The BHPS net household income definition is modelled on that used in Britain's official personal … income distribution statistics (Households Below Average Income, HBAI). I show that cross-sectional BHPS distributions track …