Work and Pensions written question – answered at on 29 November 2010.
To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions what recent estimate he has made of the proportion of household income made up of benefits in kind by net equalised income quintile.
The main source of income information, the Households Below Average Income series, includes free school meals, healthy start vouchers, free school milk and TV licences as benefits in kind income. The proportion of gross unequivalised household income made up by these benefits in kind by net equivalised household income quintile before and after housing costs is given in the following table:
Proportion of gross unequivalised household income made up by benefits in kind included in income by net equivalised household income quintile, before housing costs (BHC) and after housing costs (AHC), 2008/09, United Kingdom | ||
Quintile | Before housing costs | After housing costs |
1 | 1 | (1)- |
2 | (1)- | (1)- |
3 | (1)- | (1)- |
4 | (1)- | (1)- |
5 | (1)- | (1)- |
Total | (1)- | (1)- |
(1) Less than 0.5% of gross income is made up by those benefits in kind being considered. Notes: 1. These statistics are based on Households Below Average Income (HBAI) data sourced from the 2008-09 Family Resources Survey (FRS). This uses net household income, adjusted using modified OECD equivalisation factors for household size and composition, as an income measure as a proxy for standard of living. 2. In this analysis, equivalised net household incomes before or after housing costs are used to calculated which quintiles households fall into, but shares of incomes have been calculated using gross unequivalised household incomes. This is in line with the best practice and the HBAI publication. 3. All estimates are based on survey data and are therefore subject to uncertainty. Small differences should be treated with caution as these will be affected by sampling error and variability in non-response. Source: Household Below Average Income. |
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