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The distribution of household income 1977 to 2006/07
Describes changes over the last 30 years, drawing mainly on data published in the ONS redistribution of income analysis
Authors: Daniel Annan, Francis Jones, Saef Shah
Economic & Labour Market Review, vol 2, no 12, pp 18-31. ISSN: 1751-8334
This article describes how the distribution of household income in the UK has changed over the last 30 years. It draws mainly on data published each year in the Office for National Statistics' (ONS) annual analysis 'The effects of taxes and benefits on household income' which is also known as the Redistribution of Income (ROI) analysis. Whereas the annual ROI article focuses primarily on the latest year's data, this article provides a more detailed analysis of the way in which the income distribution has changed over time.
A companion article 'The redistribution of household income 1977 to 2006/07' focuses on changes in the way that the tax and benefit systems redistributed income, and how this affected the income distribution.
Published in web format: 16 December 2008 at 9:30 am
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