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Review of the Child Material Deprivation Items in the Family Resources Survey: Qualitative Element (MIS Necessities)
The Department for Work and Pensions commissioned CRSP to investigate what items parents consider are essential necessities for families with children in Britain. Drawing on the methodology used in the MIS study, this qualitative research is designed to help update the government’s measure of deprivation in families with children. It has informed the design of a large-scale survey (the ONS Omnibus Survey) asking members of the public which items they think that every family in Britain should be able to afford if they want them, whose results in turn will be applied in future Family Resources Surveys to measure how many families lack a selection of items that the public considers to be necessities.
Website: www.minimumincomestandard.org
Sponsor: Department for Work and Pensions
Theme: Children, Youth and the Life-course
Start date: June 2009
Completion date: December 2009
Project team (CRSP)
Donald Hirsch, Abigail Davis, Noel Smith, Nicola Selby
Report
Hirsch, D. and Smith, N. (2010) Family values – parents’ views on necessities for families with children, Department for Work and Pensions Research Report No 641. Norwich: HMSO.
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