Poverty and Place in Britain, 1968–99

Eldin Fahmy, David Gordon, Danny Dorling, Janette Rigby and Ben Wheeler
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Danny Dorling: Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, England
Janette Rigby: National Centre for Geocomputation, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Ben Wheeler: Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry, John Bull Building, Plymouth PL6 8BU, England

Environment and Planning A, 2011, vol. 43, issue 3, 594-617

Abstract: To date, analyses of long-term trends in the spatial distribution of poverty in Britain have been frustrated by a lack of consistency in definitions, data sources and measures, as well as by changes over time in census and administrative geographies. This paper draws upon a series of national poverty surveys in order to derive methodologically consistent estimates of breadline and core poverty. These models are then applied to census data in order to describe the changing geography of poverty in Britain over the 1968–99 period. The primary concern is to reveal the changing spatial distribution of poverty that lies behind the headline figures. These analyses suggest that not only has poverty become increasingly prevalent amongst British households, it also became increasingly spatially concentrated between 1968 and 1999.

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1068/a4388

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