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Low-income and deprivation in British families
— an exploratory analysis of the "consistent poverty" approach to poverty measurement using data for Great Britain drawn from the Families and Children Study: a study carried out on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions | | Author(s) | Michele Calandrino |
| Corporate Author | Department for Work and Pensions - DWP |
| Publisher | Department for Work and Pensions - DWP, Leeds, 2003 |
| Pages | 35 pp (Department for Work and Pensions Working Paper number 10) |
| Source | DWP, Social Research Division, Adelphi, 1-11 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6HT. email: Grahame.Tinsley@dwp.gsi.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Poverty ; Measurement ; Indicators. |
| Annotation | Funded by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Inland Revenue and other government departments, the Families and Children Study (FACS) provides direct information on deprivation in 34 different items, and is the most complete source of information on non-monetary deprivation indicators in Britain. This paper summarises previous alternative measures of deprivation used in the academic literature since the late 1970s. The present methodology is based on factor analysis, a statistical technique developed by the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) in Ireland. A cross-sectional analysis of FACS for the years 1999 and 2001 is carried out in this paper. This found that the dimensions of deprivation varied, suggesting that factor analysis does not necessarily produce consistent results across different samples over time. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-030820210 B |
| Classmark | W6: 3R: 3RI |
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