Transcript The research

The research grant
• Funded by the ESRC
• Major grant – £4.3 million
• The UK’s largest ever research project
on poverty and social exclusion
• Start April 2010
• End October 2013
The Research team
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University of Bristol
Heriot-Watt University
The Open University
Queen's University Belfast
University of Glasgow
The University of York
The research aims
• Improve measurement of poverty and social
exclusion
• Independent assessment on poverty targets
• Measure the change over past 30 years
• Produce policy-relevant results
Earlier work
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Breadline Britain 1983
Breadline Britain 1990
PSE 1999
PSE Northern Ireland 2002
Breadline Britain 1983
• Pioneered the “consensual” minimum
standards approach to poverty
• Built on earlier work looking at living
standards and relative deprivation
• Measured actual living standard
• Identified necessities
• Allowed for choice
The consensual method
Sees poverty as:
“an enforced lack of socially perceived
necessities”
Examines:
Multiple deprivation including social as well as
material deprivation
Allows for:
Comparison of deprivation indicators with
income
Follow up – 1990s
• Breadline Britain 1990 survey (JRF & LWT)
• European Community Household Panel surveys
• Incorporated into Irish anti-poverty legislation
(1997)
• Australian and New Zealand government
surveys
PSE 1999
• Extended indicators of social exclusion
• Furthered work on cross national
comparisons
• Allowed greater investigation with other social
indicators (crime, unemployment, poor health
etc)
• Developed income/deprivation index
PSE NI, 2002
• Examined indicators of social divide
• Looked at impact of violence and the
“troubles”
• Constructed a living standard index
PSE 2011 - methodology
Two stage survey:
1. Necessities survey using the NatCen Omnibus
survey in Britain and the NISRA Omnibus
survey in June 2011
2. Main deprivation survey using FRS in April
2012 with 4,000 households in Britain and
further 800 in NI
In parallel, some in depth qualitative research will
be undertaken
PSE 2011- measurement aims
• To develop new combined income/deprivation
poverty measures
• To construct a standard of living index for the UK
• To facilitate the re-basing of the data on
necessities incorporated into UK government
measurement of child poverty
• To test the reliability of the material deprivation
module currently being incorporated into EUSILC
PSE 2011 - analysis
• Track change over last 30 years
• Provide independent assessment of impact
of government policy
• Detailed analysis of deprivation by group
• Undertake longitudinal analysis using new
data and back benefit records of survey
participants
• Examine policy implications
PSE - international
Work with international team who have carried
out similar “necessities” based approaches to
poverty research in:
Japan, Mexico, Brazil, New Zealand, Australia,
Germany, France, Ireland, Finland, Sweden,
EU and others
PSE – dissemination
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Poverty website
Conferences
Publications
Television programmes
Social media and You Tube etc
www.poverty.ac.uk
First stage
• Open research process
• Using the web for research –
necessities survey
• Past PSE research
• International conferences papers and
research
www.poverty.ac.uk
Second stage
• Past survey data
• New visualisation tools
• Related research
• Comment blog
www.poverty.ac.uk
By 2013
• All data from current and past surveys
• Research resource bank on poverty and
social exclusion
• Educational resource bank
• Video case studies
• International research
• Engage policy makers in debate
• Stimulate public interest