Helen Bowman reports on interviews with 100 families in two low-income cityneighbourhoods, one in Sheffield and one in …

. CASE’s qualitative, longitudinalstudy in low income areas seeks to understand area change from theperspective of families …

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

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 …

,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 …

This paper argues that our understanding of income and poverty dynamicsbenefits from taking a life cycle perspective. A … experiencing rising, falling, orother income trajectories. Using ten waves of the British Household PanelSurvey, we analyse the … income trajectories of people at different stages in theirlives in order to build a picture of income dynamics over the whole …