Contribution to Session One Radical Statistics Conference 23 rd February 2013 Priory Street Centre YORK Roy CarrHill Household Surveys Omitted from Sampling Frames by Design Homeless populations ID: 433494
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Non-Household Populations: Implications for measuring inequality
Contribution to Session One, Radical Statistics Conference, 23
rd
February, 2013, Priory Street Centre, YORK
Roy Carr-HillSlide2
Household Surveys
Omitted from Sampling Frames by Design
Homeless populations
Institutional populations
Mobile, nomadic or pastoralist populations
Under-represented in Practice
Fragile, disjointed or multiple occupancy households
Slum populations
Difficult to reach areasSlide3
Numbers Missing
Homeless: c.85,000 households assessed as unintentionally homeless + 1,250 rough sleepers; but Crisis estimates that there are about 350,000 households actually homeless but staying with family or friends
Institutionalised:
Hospitals: c.160,000 adults in hospital on any one night; given that 29% live alone, a minimum of 48,000 wrongly counted as empty on any day
Care Homes: c.418,000 in publicly or privately provided homes in UK
Military: c.108,000 service personnel serving abroad or living in barracksSlide4
Gypsies
Prison population: c.85,000
Refugees: officially c.238,000, unofficially double
Mobile / Nomadic Population: c. 82,000 Gypsies and c.8i000 New Age Travellers
Fragile and Disjointed Households: 22,000 children in care
Urban Slums: not relevant for UK
Insecure Areas: not relevant for UKSlide5
How Many are Poor
All those in or just released from prison (90,000), the 90,000 gypsies and 238,000 unofficial refugees will have low or very low money incomes making 413,000.
About a quarter of those living alone c.12,000, all those council supported (c.220,000) and a quarter of those in nursing homes (c.11,000).
Estimate that, among the 1,216,500 missing, 545,300 are from the poorest
decile
, leading to a clear bias in estimates
of inequality