Breadline Britain in the 1990sDavid Gordon, Christina Pantazis First published in 1997, this series, published in association with the Social Policy Research Unity at the University of York, is designed to inform public debate about these policy areas and to make the details of important policy-related research more widely available. |
Contents
Acknowledgements | |
Poverty and mental health | |
methodology and international comparisons | |
The publics perception of necessities and poverty | |
Poverty and gender | |
Poverty and crime | |
Poverty and health | |
Poverty debt and benefits | |
Poverty and local public services | |
Adapting the consensual definition of poverty | |
Conclusions and summary | |
Technical appendix | |
Additional tables | |
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1990 Breadline Britain adults afford amongst analysis average Bramley Breadline Britain survey British Crime Survey CHAID child compared consensual consumption countries criteria debt defined definition of poverty deprivation group deprivation index disability Domino Films equivalence scales equivalisation expenditure experience of poverty families with children fear crime fear of crime Figure gender genuinely poor history of poverty household income household type housing inequalities less deprived level of poverty live in need living in poverty living standards Logistic regression London lone parents low income Mack and Lansley mean deprivation score measurement of poverty median deprivation mental health minimum multiply deprived objective odds ratio pensioners Percent perception of necessities poorest population poverty line poverty threshold problems questions rates relationship relative respondents scientific shows significant social class society standard of living statistically Table television Townsend usage victimisation women World Bank