Non-Household Populations

Data from household surveys have increasingly been used as a basis for social policy. They are generally inappropriate for obtaining information about the poorest, and therefore for policies concerned with tackling poverty and deprivation. They omit certain groups by design: the homeless; those in institutions; and mobile, nomadic or pastoralist populations. In addition, in practice, they typically under-represent those in fragile, disjointed or multiple occupancy households, those in urban slums and those in areas deemed as insecure. These sub-groups constitute a pretty comprehensive, ostensive definition of the 'poorest'.The sources of worldwide estimates of the missing populations are briefly described, with those for the UK discussed in greater detail, paying attention to their likely income and wealth. At least 250 million of the poorest of the poor are omitted worldwide; and in the UK about half a million of the poorest are missing from survey sample frames.In the UK, these 'missing' population sub-groups bias the analysis of income inequalities and affect the validity of formulae that have been developed for the geographical allocation of resources to health and social care

Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Inequality · Missing data · Population · Poverty · Sample (material) · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Demography · Health disparities and outcomes · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies

• Capturing the neglected extremes of UK poverty

  Open Access•Glen Bramley, Suzanne Fitzpatrick•Journal of Poverty and Social…•2022

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• The Role of Family Institutions and Deregulation Policies in Explaining Unemployment Risks in Households of Europe

  Oxana Krutova•Comparative Sociology•2020

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• A call for better understanding household complexity in environmental social science

  Open Access•Rebecca Nixon, Brooke Mcwherter et al.•Population and Environment•2024

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• Moving beyond the household

  Madhavan, Sangeetha Madhavan et al.•Population Studies•2017

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• Who counts in poverty research

  Open Access•Daniel Edmiston•The Sociological Review•2024

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• A scandal of invisibility

  Open Access•Philip Setel, Philip W Setel et al.•The Lancet•2007

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• Social Indicators

  A B Atkinson, Tony Atkinson et al.•Social indicators•2002

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• Quantifying Poverty in Viet Nam

  Jonathan Pincus, John Sender•Journal of Vietnamese Studies•2008

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• The state of urban health in India; comparing the poorest quartile to the rest of the urban population in selected states and cities

  Open Access•Siddharth Agarwal•Environment and Urbanization•2011

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• Environmental Refugees

  Open Access•Norman Myers•Population and Environment•1997

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• Incarceration & social inequality

  Open Access•B Western, Becky Pettit•Daedalus•2010

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• Paradigms of Poverty

  Open Access•J H Veit-Wilson, John Veit–Wilson•Journal of Social Policy•1986

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• Bringing the Missing Million Home

  Open Access•Richard Mitchell, Danny Dorling et al.•Environment and Planning A…•2002

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• The pursuit of equity in NHS resource allocation

  Open Access•Sheena Asthana, Alex Gibson et al.•Social Science & Medicine•2004

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