household income, and 60% of equivalised expenditure for the financial year ending 2017, 22.8% of the UK population was considered to be in income poverty and 21.8% was deemed to be in expenditure poverty. Yet when looking at the two variables together, only 11.5% of the population was in both income and expenditure poverty in FYE 2017, and 17.7% of all children were also deemed to be in both income and expenditure poverty. To coin a phrase popular academics, research needs to done’. ‘more References Ashton, P. (2013) Lore’. Mensa Magazine, ‘Poor Ashton, P. (2011) Pensioner Poverty: Reality or Myth?, MSc dissertation, University of Southampton Brewer and O’Dea (2017) "Why are Households That Report The Lowest Incomes so Well-Off?" Mack J and Lansley S (1985) Poor Britain,George Allen & Unwin New Society (1986), Editorial 14 November 1986 ONS (2018) An expenditure-based approach to poverty in the UK: financial year ending 2017, Piachaud, D. (1981) 'Peter Townsend and the Holy Grail', New Society, 10 September: p.421. Tonkin R. and Serafino P. (2017): poverty estimates using income, “Comparing expenditure and material performance and social progress” (PDF, 3.2MB)
household income, and 60% of equivalised expenditure for the financial year ending 2017, 22.8% of the UK population was considered to be in income poverty and 21.8% was deemed to be in expenditure poverty. Yet when looking at the two variables together, only 11.5% of the population was in both income and expenditure poverty in FYE 2017, and 17.7% of all children were also deemed to be in both income and expenditure poverty. To coin a phrase popular academics, ‘more research needs to done’. References Ashton, P. (2013) ‘Poor Lore’. Mensa Magazine, Ashton, P. (2011) Pensioner Poverty: Reality or Myth?, MSc dissertation, University of Southampton Brewer and O’Dea (2017) "Why are Households That Report The Lowest Incomes so Well-Off?" Mack J and Lansley S (1985) Poor Britain,George Allen & Unwin New Society (1986), Editorial 14 November 1986 ONS (2018) An expenditure-based approach to poverty in the UK: financial year ending 2017, Piachaud, D. (1981) 'Peter Townsend and the Holy Grail', New Society, 10 September: p.421. Tonkin R. and Serafino P. (2017): “Comparing poverty estimates using income, expenditure and material performance and social progress” (PDF, 3.2MB)
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