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 …

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. …

Debates over living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK are often hampered by the fact that official data on … household incomes are available only with a significant lag. Currently, the latest statistics are for 2014-15. In this report …, we attempt to fill this gap by estimating what has happened to household incomes between 2014-15 and 2016-17 based on …

This report examines changes in the distribution of household incomes in the UK, and the determinants and consequences … of recent trends. This includes analysing not only changes in average living standards, but also inequality in household … incomes and measures of income poverty and deprivation. We put these into historical context using comparable data spanning …

poverty. In this latest report, we focus in particular on those people who are poorest in society, with two of our three main … chapters focusing on poverty. …