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May 1995 C048
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Poverty dynamics in Great Britain: preliminary results for the British household panel survey
Type: IFS Reports
Authors: Steven Webb
Volume, issue, pages: 21 pp
ISBN: 978-1-873357-45-3
IFS member price: £3
Non-member price: £6

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This study is based on a new data source, the BHPS, which allows researchers to follow the fortunes of the same households from one year to the next. It finds that the poorest tenth of households in 1992 were on average around 3% worse off in real terms than the poorest tenth in 1991, but that this result was mainly attributable to previously non-poor households becoming worse off.

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