Living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK: 2022

Publication type

Report

Series Number

R215

Series

IFS Report Series

Authors

Publication date

July 15, 2022

Summary:

This report examines how material living standards – most commonly measured by households’ incomes – have changed for different groups in the UK, and the consequences that these changes have for income inequality and for measures of deprivation and poverty. This is the 22nd annual report published by IFS authors on living standards, poverty and inequality in the UK since the annual reports started in 2001. In this report, we focus on two particular issues. First, we look at how the distribution of household income changed during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Second, we use pre-pandemic data on child poverty and material deprivation to examine the situation facing poor families with children prior to the pandemic.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1920/re.ifs.2022.0215

Subjects

Link

https://ifs.org.uk/publications/16124

Notes

Uses Understanding Society data (not Understanding Society - COVID-19 Study, 2020)


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