Poverty, wealth and place in Britain, 1968 to 2005
Understanding the Transformation of the Prospects of Places
View maps
You can view cartogram maps of the poverty and wealth measures here.
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Which tract?
You can find out which tract a particular place (e.g. a village or town) is in, along with poverty and wealth data for that tract here.
Download Data and Documents
Documents
The full project report may be downloaded from the JRF website, or purchased in hard copy from The Policy Press.
Data
A number of datasets can be downloaded here: re-use and publication is permitted for academic or non-profit purposes. Some data are derived from the UK censuses of 1971, 1981, 1991 and 2001, which are Crown Copyright, the Family Expenditure Surveys, and the Poor Britain/Breadline Britain/Poverty and Social Exclusion surveys. Some of these data were obtained via the Essex data archive and the ESRC/JISC census programme.
The data for the report were produced and analysed at tract level (see below). Data have also been re-aggregated to Westminster Parliamentary Constituency boundaries as at 1997/2001.
Poverty and Wealth Data
The poverty and wealth data can be downloaded as follows
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_constituency.xls (1.4Mb) zipped (613k)
- Data for constituencies in Excel format
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_tract.xls (1Mb) zipped (511k)
- Data for tracts in Excel format
If you run Windows but don't have Excel, you can download the viewer from Microsoft here. If you use another operating system and don't use Excel, you could either use
the tab-delimited text format file below, or use OpenOffice to view the data.
A summary of the measures at constituency level can be viewed here (1Mb html file). Poverty and wealth data for each year can also be viewed in your web browser via links to pages here.
Poverty and Wealth Data for statistical/GIS packages
These datasets contain the same data as the Excel files above, formatted for use in statistical or GIS software.
Constituency level data
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_constituency.dta (214k)
- Data in Stata format
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_constituency.xpt (273k)
- Data in SAS Transport format
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_constituency.txt (241k)
- Data in tab-delimited text format
Tract level data
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_tract.dta (432k)
- Data in Stata format
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_tract.xpt (677k)
- Data in SAS Transport format
- poverty_wealth_1968_2001_tract.txt (539k)
- Data in tab-delimited text format
Census Tracts
- All_tract_LUTs.xls (Excel file, 6Mb), zipped (1.5Mb)
- Look-up tables to enable aggregation of ward-level census data for 1981 to 2001 to tracts.
- tracts_cartogram.zip (Zipped ESRI Shapefile, 59k)
- Shapefile of the hexagonal tracts cartogram for use in a Geographic Information System
Ward/PostCode Sector
- breadline_ward_pcs_1971_2001
(Excel file, 4.3Mb), zipped (1.5 Mb)
- Breadline Poor data for Ward/PostCode Sector 1971-2001
Back to the project home page
Project pages
- Project home
- Background - Poverty and wealth in Britain
- Methods and Data - How we did this research
- Results - What we found
- Conclusions - What this all means
- Download reports and data - Download the project report and datasets, find poverty and wealth information for your area, and view maps of the measures
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