Summary

Experimental statistics that build on an equivalisation method to develop a simplified needs-adjusted scale for equivalising our measure of final income that better accounts for disparities in the need for social transfers in kind across different age groups.

Publications

• How accounting for differences in need for public services impacts UK income inequality statistics

  Experimental statistics that build on an equivalisation method to develop a simplified needs-adjusted scale for equivalising our measure of final income that better accounts for disparities in the need for social transfers in kind across different age groups.

Data

• Distributional consequences of equivalising household income accounting for social transfers in kind

  Reference tables to accompany Understanding how accounting for differences in need for public services impacts income inequality statistics (Experimental), covering the period 2014 to 2015 and 2018 to 2019. Equivalisation is the process of adjusting income statistics to account for the fact that households of different compositions will require different incomes to have the same standard of living.

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