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Are 'poor' pensioners 'deprived'?
— a report of research carried out by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and the Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex on behalf of the Department for Work and Pensions | | Author(s) | Richard Berthoud, Morten Blekesaune, Ruth Hancock |
| Corporate Author | Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex; Department of Health and Human Sciences, University of Essex; Department for Work and Pensions - DWP |
| Publisher | Corporate Document Services, Leeds, 2006 |
| Pages | 111 pp (Department for Work and Pensions Research report, no 364) |
| Source | Corporate Document Services, 7 Eastgate, Leeds LS2 7EY. E-mail: orderline@cds.co.uk Website: www.cds.co.uk Download from DWP website: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/asd/asd5/rrs2006.ass |
| Keywords | Poor elderly ; Poverty ; Indicators ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Pensioners have lower average incomes and a higher risk of income poverty than adults below pension age. The object of this project was to describe and explain the relationships between age and living standards in later life, exploring how sensitive this is to the questions being asked, and the extent to which the experiences of individuals change as they grow older. The report analyses the Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey (PSE) to experiment with a range of different indicators to see how robust the conclusions are with respect to construction of an index. The PSE, a cross-sectional survey, was carried out in 1999 by a joint team from Bristol, Loughborough and York universities. This report also analyses the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS), a sequence of 7 years of data about the same sample of people; use of longitudinal data shows whether living standards improve or deteriorate as people grow older. This project is one of three commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) on how we measure older people's living standards and spending patterns. Readers are recommended to consult another of the reports - "Understanding older people's experiences of poverty and material deprivation" - as its aim was to provide an understanding of older people's experiences of poverty and indicators of material deprivation. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-060726001 B |
| Classmark | F:W6: W6: 3RI: 3J |
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