The current cost of living is pushing more people into poverty, with almost 68% of low income...
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04/07/2020
Poverty Measurement: Guide to data disaggregation adopted by UNECE
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) has adopted a Guide to Poverty Measurement and data disaggregation which is now formally endorsed by the Conference of European Statisticians (CES).
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08/12/2017
The centrality of poverty
Poverty as measured by material deprivation through lack of economic resources remains absolutely central to understanding the causation of most aspects of social exclusion and a range of social outcomes, concludes the 2nd of the two-volume PSE-UK study.
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06/04/2017
Official UK & EU measures
In this section you will find details of the official measures used to monitor child poverty in the UK under the Child Poverty Act, adopted by the Labour Government in 2010. Following the formation of the Coalition government (2010 to 2015) and then the election of the Conservative government (2015-), there were moves to replace these measures with other broader ones. These proposal were widely criticised by an overwhelming majority of poverty experts - see, for example, the PSE: UK team’s response to these proposals in Tackling Child Poverty and Improving Life Chances and Social Mobility and Child Poverty Review).
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31/03/2017
PSE reduced and responsive scales
This paper identifies a subset of necessities from the full set used in the PSE deprivation index which accurately identifies individuals seen as deprived by the full set - at least down to the level of the most deprived 15%.
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30/03/2017
Producing the PSE poverty line
The PSE poverty threshold is a measure that combines multiple deprivation and low income. A 'Note' on poverty measures and 'Steps' to producing a poverty threshold - set out how this is done and outlines the tests made to ensure a reliable and discriminatory index.
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07/03/2016
Urban and rural poverty in Scotland
Analysis of the PSE-UK survey results finds significant poverty in every kind of location in Scotland with poverty highest in large urban areas and lowest in remote towns though there is strong evidence that access to services is worse in more rural or remote locations.Category: PSE Report -
03/02/2016
Briefings, PhD theses and other reports
Are subjective measures of well being effective at identifying risk of material deprivation? What are they measuring? How should we take account of children's views when examining measures of child poverty? Read Grace Kelly and Gill Main's Phd theses drawing on the PSE research.
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29/01/2016
Journal papers
Read the Journal papers coming from the PSE research. The latest paper examines how analyses of the micro paradata ‘by-products’ from the 1967/1968 Poverty in the United Kingdom (PinUK) and 2012 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the UK (PSE) surveys highlight changes in the conditions of survey production over this 45 year period in the latest output from the PSE research.
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27/01/2016
Media coverage of PSE UK findings
The Poverty and Social Exclusion research has received extensive coverage in the media. Details of the main articles in the press and interviews on radio/tv to date are listed below, including, where available, links. Many of these articles and interviews provide good summaries of key aspects of the research. See, for examples: ‘The resistible rise of mass poverty’ (Tribune, March 6-9, 2015),for an overall summary of key findings and Thinking Allowed with Laurie Taylor for a discussion with Joanna Mack on the measurement of poverty (20 May, 2015.Category: -
11/02/2015
Breadline Britain: going without
How has the experiences of poverty changed over the last thirty years. Six new videos drawing from the ITV Breadline Britain series in 1983, 1991 and 2013. Breadline Britain: the rise of mass poverty by Stewart Lansley and Joanna Mack is published by Oneworld on February 19, 2015
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