Release
Wealth in Great Britain Wave 5: 2014 to 2016
Released:
1 February 2018 9:30am
Next release:
To be announced
Summary
Main results from the fifth wave of the Wealth and Assets Survey covering the period July 2014 to June 2016.
Data
-
Pension wealth: wealth in Great Britain
The value of any pension pots already accrued that are not state basic retirement or state earning related. This includes occupational pensions, personal pensions, retained rights in previous pensions and pensions in payment.
-
Total Wealth: Wealth in Great Britain
Total wealth is the sum of the four components of wealth and is therefore net of all liabilities.
-
Physical wealth: wealth in Great Britain
The (self-evaluated) value of household contents, possessions and valuables owned, such as antiques, artworks, collections and any vehicles owned by individuals (including the value of any personalised number plates).
-
Household debt: wealth in Great Britain
Households that have liquidity problems and solvency problems only
-
Financial wealth: wealth in Great Britain
The values of any financial assets held including both formal investments, such as bank or building society current or saving accounts, investment vehicles such as Individual Savings Accounts, endowments, stocks and shares, and informal savings.
-
Wealth in Great Britain: quality indicators
Standard error information for total mean, median and change of total wealth and its components.
-
Property wealth: wealth in Great Britain
Respondents' self-valuation of any property owned, both their main residence plus any other land or property owned in the UK or abroad.
Changes to this release date
-
Previous date
29 January 2018 9:30am
Reason for change
Further quality assurance needed.
About the data
Accredited Official Statistics
These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:
- meet user needs
- are presented clearly and accessibly
- are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
- are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
