§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the largest margin of uncertainty which applies to estimates within his most recent Households Below Average Income publication which do not appear within brackets. [146314]
§ Mr. BayleyEstimates of the margin of uncertainty due to the choice of equivalence scales and sampling error can be found in appendices 4 and 5 of "Households Below Average Income 1994–95 to 1998–99". Copies of the publication are held in the Library. It should be noted that
89Westimates are also subject to other non-sampling errors, such as non-response, whose magnitude it is not possible to quantify.
§ Mr. WebbTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security if he will estimate the number of individuals living in households below half average income in the first quarter of the most recent financial year for which he has constructed a data set, according to the Households Below Average Income methodology. [146315]
§ Mr. BayleyIt is not possible to produce robust Households Below Average Income (HBAI) statistics on a quarterly basis.