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| Small-area measures of income poverty | | Author(s) | Alex Fenton |
| Corporate Author | ESRC Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion - CASE, Suntory-Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines - STICERD, London School of Economics and Political Science |
| Publisher | STICERD, London, May 2013 |
| Pages | 37 pp (CASEpaper 173) |
| Source | Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE. http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/case |
| Keywords | Income [older people] ; Poverty ; Needs indicators ; Local. |
| Annotation | This is the first of a series of papers arising from a programme of research called Social Policy in a Cold Climate, which examines the effects of the major economic and political changes in the UK since 2007, particularly their impact on the distribution of wealth, poverty, inequality and spatial difference. The analysis includes policies and spending decisions from the last period of the Labour government (2007-2010), including the beginning of the financial crisis, as well as those made by the Coalition government since May 2010. This paper considers techniques for measuring the prevalence of income poverty within small areas, or "neighbourhoods", in Britain. Some general criteria for small-area poverty measures are set out; and two broad methods, poverty proxies and modelled income estimates, are identified. Empirical analyses of the validity and coverage of poverty proxies derived from UK administrative data, such as social security benefit claims, are presented. The concluding section assesses a new poverty proxy that will be used within a wider programme of analysis of the spatial-distributional effects of tax and welfare changes and of economic trends in Britain from 2000 to 2014. Particular attention is paid to the relationship between the proxy values and other local poverty measures in different kinds of places. These suggest that the proxy is an adequate, albeit imperfect, tool for investigating changes in intra-urban distributions of poverty. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130820001 b |
| Classmark | JF: W6: IK:3RI: 5CT |
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