§ Ms. CorstonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will provide statistics on the basis of the latest analysis of households below average income, for the long-term sick and those on disability benefit to correspond with statistical data for pensioners, recipients of income support and unemployed given in tables A4 and A5 in the latest households below average income report.
§ Mr. BurtEstimates are in the tables. The households below average income— HBAI— dataset, the family expenditure survey— FES— does not identify all long-term sick or disabled people, and its identification of receipt of disability benefits is imperfect. The estimates are susceptible to these imperfections as well as sampling errors. The results reported in the tables may, therefore, reflect changes in the categories of long-term sick or disabled people identified in the FES, as well as changes in the incomes of such people.
Where figures are particularly uncertain due to sampling error and where the confidence intervals exceed pie-determined limits, the estimates are bracketed or 72W omitted. Further information about the effects of sampling errors can be found in appendix 5 of HBAI, a copy of which is in the Library.
The figures in the tables are presented in line with tables A4 and A5 in "Households Below Average Income 1979–1990–91".
Changes in real income for long-term sick and those on disability benefits1 Real changes in median incomes 1979 to 1990–91 Long-term sick or receiving disabilty benefits Per cent. Income before housing costs Bottom quintile (4) Second quintile (14) Third quintile (*)2 Whole group (Mean) 26 Income after housing costs Bottom quintile (*)3 Second quintile (14) Third quintile (*)4 Whole group (Mean) 30 1 People who reported receipt of Invalidity Benefit, Severe Disablement Allowance, Attendance Allowance or Mobility Allowance or people not in work who reported long-term sickness or disability. 2 95 per cent. confidence interval is +9 to +30. 3 95 per cent. confidence interval is -7 to +15. 4 95 per cent, confidence interval is +12 to +36.