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Title
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Percentage of children aged 5 to 10 years living in families with relative low income |
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Description
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Percentage of children aged 5 to 10 years living in families with relative low income.
Child age is calculated from date of birth to 31 March in each financial year.
A family is defined as a single adult; or a married or cohabitating couple; or a Civil Partnership; and any dependent children.
Relative low-income is defined as a family whose equivalised income is below 60 per cent of contemporary median income. Gross income measure is Before Housing Costs (BHC) and includes contributions from earnings, state support and pensions. Income is equivalised to adjust for household size and family composition.
Absolute low income is defined as a family in low income Before Housing Costs (BHC) in the reference year in comparison with incomes in financial year ending 2011. A family must have claimed Child Benefit and at least one other household benefit (Universal Credit, tax credits, or Housing Benefit) at any point in the year to be classed as low income in these statistics.
Families "in-work" are those to have had an accumulated period of at least 26 weeks paid employment or self-employment within the 52 week tax year. Employment activity is accumulated from either (or both) the adult claimant of Child Benefit and any partner(s) in the tax year.
Statistical disclosure control has been applied to this dataset to protect identification of an individual. Totals may not sum due to the disclosure control applied. Data for the latest financial year is provisional. |
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Unit of analysis
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Percentage |
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Date available
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July 2024 |
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Frequency of publication
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Annual |
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Service / policy area
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Poverty |
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Subject
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Poverty |
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Part of
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Children in low income families |
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Publisher
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Department for Work and Pensions |
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Rights
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You may use and re-use this data free of charge in any format or medium, under the terms of the Open Government License - see website for further details. |
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Numerator Title
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Number of children aged 5 - 10 years in families with relative low income |
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Denominator Title
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Number of children aged 5 - 10 years mid year population estimate |
