Households Below Average Income (HBAI) 1994/95-2007/08
This is the twentieth edition of the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) series. This report presents information on potential living standards as determined by disposable income in 2007/08, changes in income patterns over time and income mobility.
A full copy of the publication can be accessed here: HBAI 1994/95 - 2007/08 (1.14MB)
Contents
- Contents (113KB)
Chapters
This section includes an overview of the background, changes over time and shows:
- summary of key findings,
- distribution of disposable income,
- how different client groups (children, working-age adults and pensioners) are distributed across income quintiles,
- the percentage of each client group below various fractions of median income,
- the composition by client group of the total number of people below these thresholds, and
- material deprivation (children chapter only)
- decile medians and quintile medians in real terms,
- population estimates for key groups,
- measures of income inequality,
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of contemporary median income, and
- percentages of groups with income below various fractions of base-year median income.
Appendices
This section includes the glossary and definitions of the terms used in the report, more detail on HBAI methodology and additional analyses including:
- Opportunity for All indicators
- Persistent low income statistics
