Fahmy, Eldin and Gordon, David and Dorling, Danny and Rigby, Jan and Wheeler, Ben (2011) Poverty and place in Britain, 1968-99. Environment and Planning A, 43. pp. 594-617. ISSN 0308-518X

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Abstract

To date, analyses of long-term trends in the spatial distribution of poverty in Britain have been frustrated by a lack of consistency in definitions, data sources and measures, as well as by changes over time in census and administrative geographies. This paper draws upon a series of national poverty surveys in order to derive methodologically consistent estimates of breadline and core poverty. These models are then applied to census data in order to describe the changing geography of poverty in Britain over the 1968 ^ 99 period. The primary concern is to reveal the changing spatial distribution of poverty that lies behind the headline figures. These analyses suggest that not only has poverty become increasingly prevalent amongst British households, it also became increasingly spatially concentrated between 1968 and 1999.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Poverty and place; Britain 1968-99;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > National Centre for Geocomputation, NCG
Item ID:	3057
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1068/a4388
Depositing User:	Jan Rigby
Date Deposited:	30 Jan 2012 15:20
Journal or Publication Title:	Environment and Planning A
Publisher:	Pion
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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