A comprehensive study of inequality was launched recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. In this second post, we explore how this review using twenty-eight different datasets in the UK Data Service collection is already creating impact.
Tag: Poverty in data
A comprehensive study of inequality was launched recently by the Institute for Fiscal Studies. We explore how data available from the UK Data Service helped underpin it and how it is already creating impact.
Drawing on Resolution Foundation research using data accessed through the UK Data Service, the impact team examines “Unsung Britain”—lower-income families working more but seeing limited improvements to their living standards.
Elaine Robinson and Juliet Stone, from the Centre for Research in Social Policy, share insights from their quantitative analysis underpinning Marie Curie’s Dying in poverty campaign.
Eve Little explores how data and research have informed understanding of child poverty and contributed to recent policy change, including the removal of the two-child limit.
Tom Pottrill, Policy Officer at Resolve Poverty, shares insights into Resolve Poverty’s approach to engagement and impact, and sets the scene for the upcoming Resolve Poverty Conference 2026.
Tom Pottrill, Policy Officer at Resolve Poverty, explains why devolved access to social security data is essential for local councils in tackling poverty.
We highlight the impact some of the data available via the UK Data Service is having in research, policy and public conversations around the area of poverty, deprivation and the cost-of-living crisis.
As we reach the end of 2024, James Lockwood, our Research Impact and Engagement Manager, looks back over some of the impact highlights of the year.