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| Attitudes to inheritance in Britain | | Author(s) | Karen Rowlingson, Stephen McKay |
| Corporate Author | Joseph Rowntree Foundation - JRF; Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath |
| Publisher | The Policy Press, for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Bristol, 2005 |
| Pages | 88 pp |
| Source | The Policy Press, University of Bristol, Fourth Floor, Beacon House, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1QU. E-mail: tpp-info@bristol.ac.uk Orders: Marston Book Services, PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN. |
| Keywords | Owner occupied dwellings ; Assets [elderly] ; Wills ; Legacies ; Attitude ; Social surveys. |
| Annotation | The growth of home ownership in the UK has probably increased the number of people who will both bequeath and inherit assets. The authors therefore wanted to discover how much support there is for the concept of inheritance and how this varies within the population. Their report considers expectations of receiving an inheritance, and whether or not they feel they need to inherit assets (referred to as "perceived needs"). The study also focuses on the experience of receiving an inheritance; attitudes to, and ability to leave, bequests; and attitudes to assets. A short chapter on people's knowledge of inheritance law and tax, and whether or not they had made a will outlines findings from previous research. The present study was commissioned by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and carried out at the Universities of Bath and Bristol. The study's main component was a nationally representative survey of 2,000 people living in Britain. Focus groups of owner-occupiers in different age bands were also carried out. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-050721003 B |
| Classmark | KEA: JD: VTH: QE7: DP: 3F |
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