The research

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The research grant

• Funded by the ESRC
• Major grant 4.3 million
• The UKs largest ever research project on
  poverty and social exclusion
• Start April 2010
• End October 2013

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The Research team

• University of Bristol
• Heriot-Watt University
• The Open University
• Queen's University Belfast
• University of Glasgow
• The University of York

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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

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Earlier work

• Breadline Britain 1983
• Breadline Britain 1990
• PSE 1999
• PSE Northern Ireland 2002

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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

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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

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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

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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

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PSE NI, 2002

• Examined indicators of social divide
• Looked at impact of violence and the troubles
• Constructed a living standard index

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PSE 2011 - methodology

• Two stage survey
• 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

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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 EU-SILC

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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

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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

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PSE dissemination

• Poverty website
• Conferences
• Publications
• Television programmes
• Social media and You Tube etc

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www.poverty.ac.uk

• First stage
• Open research process
• Using the web for research necessities survey
• Past PSE research
• International conferences papers and research

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www.poverty.ac.uk

• Second stage
• Past survey data
• New visualisation tools
• Related research
• Comment blog

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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