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. …

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 …