13 June 2013
National Statistics on Poverty and Income Inequality 2011-12 will be published by the Scottish Government on Thursday 13 June 2013.
Last year's publication can be found here: poverty figures 2010-11
March 2013
Local Incomes and Poverty in Scotland published by the Improvement Service. Developing local and small area estimates and exploring patterns of income distribution, poverty and deprivation.
September 2012
Local Child Poverty figures for 2010 published by HMRC.
June 2012
New poverty figures show that there was a drop in overall relative poverty levels between 2009-10 and 2010-11. This has been mainly driven by a fall in median household incomes over this time period.
September 2011
Local Child Poverty figures for 2009 published by HMRC.
May 2011
New poverty figures show that there was little change in relative poverty levels between 2008-09 and 2009-10.
March 2011
The Scottish Government published its Child Poverty strategy which describes what we will do to reduce levels of child poverty in Scotland.
November 2010
Child poverty strategy consultation published along with brief overview of child poverty evidence. Consultation closes on 7th Jan 2011.
October 2010
New figures showing poverty levels in urban, rural and deprived areas.
August 2010
Relative poverty across Scottish local authorities contains the first official estimates of relative poverty at local authority level across Scotland. Note that these are currently classed as Data being developed and are undergoing further quality assurance work.
November 2009
Local authority indicators which are used as proxies for poverty just added for period 2007-2008.
July 2009
- New poverty figures including urban and rural areas / deprived areas and poverty among families containing disabled people just released in the Main Analyses section.
- A new report discusses the data sources which can be used to examine the cost of living in urban and rural areas. This follows on from the income and poverty statistics users day which was held in summer 2008.
April 2009
Recently released:
- Research into the experience of poverty in rural Scotland
- Report into feasibility of improving Scottish Household Survey income estimates by using data from the Family Resources Survey. Full report and summary available here.
- Equivalence scales: rationales, uses and assumptions. Equivalence scales are used to adjust household income figures for the relative cost of living, or assumed standard of living of different sized households. This paper discusses some equivalence scales and the underlying assumptions of equivalisation.