Dataset(s): The effects of taxes and benefits on household income, disposable income estimate

Average UK household incomes taxes and benefits by household type, tenure status, household characteristics and long-term trends in income inequality.

Contact:
Household Income and Expenditure team

Release date:
24 September 2024

Next release:
To be announced

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Correction See correction
Ongoing quality assurance identified an error in the underlying survey microdata relating to the dataset “The effects of taxes and benefits on household income: disposable income estimate” for financial year ending 2022. An error was identified in self-employment income and cash benefits microdata, impacting a range of published tables. After correcting this minor error, revised UK household disposable income remains within 0.3% of previously reported values. “Average Household Income, UK, financial year ending 2022” headline statistics show a revised median household income of £32,400 (up from the previously reported £32,300) and “Average Household Inequality, UK, financial year ending 2022” show a revised Gini coefficient for disposable income of 35.5% (originally reported as 35.7%). We apologise for any inconvenience, data tables and main points have now been corrected.
23 August 2024 09:30
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Correction See correction
An error has been identified in Table 31, where the consumer prices index including owner-occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) was incorrect for 1977-1980, impacting timeseries data in Tables 1,2,3,5,6, and 28. This has since been corrected.
18 July 2023 09:30
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Correction See correction
An error has been identified in Table 10 impacting the Gini coefficient for FYE 2022 in this table only. This has since been corrected.
25 January 2023 15:58