Poverty in the UK: statistics
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This briefing explains UK poverty statistics, including historical trends and forecasts, and poverty by employment, tenure, ethnicity, disability and region.
By Brigid Francis-Devine
How is poverty measured?
The focus in this briefing is on poverty defined in terms of disposable household income (income after adding on benefits and deducting direct taxes). However, poverty may be defined in different ways and there is no single, universally accepted definition.
Two commonly used measures of p...
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