§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether he has any information concerning the current average income of(a) women pensioners and (b) war widows.
§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 13 July 1989]: The average weekly gross income of all single1 women pensioners in 1986 was £73.30 (at 1986 prices). Comparable information is not available for war widows.
Source: Family Expenditure Survey 1986.
1 Information on the gross income of all women pensioners is not given because the available data on this group includes the income of the husbands of married women.
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§ Mr. Nicholas WintertonTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security whether he has any information concerning the percentages of all women pensioners which fall into different total income brackets; and if he will give comparable figures for war widows.
§ Mr. Peter Lloyd[holding answer 13 July 1989]: The proportion of single1 women pensioners in gross equivalent2 income quintiles is as follows:
Number Quintile 1 (lowest) 26.8 2 49.5 3 13.7 4 5.4 5 (highest) 4.6 Comparable information is not available for war widows.
Source: Family Expenditure Survey 1986.
1Information on the income distribution of all women pensioners is not given because the available data on this group includes the income of the husbands of married women.
2Equivalisation is a method of adjusting incomes to allow direct comparisons to be made between different family types, for example single and married people, those with and without children, householders and non-householders.