2.2 Class Inequalities In Poverty

Question 1

What is poverty?

Answer 1

The state or condition of having little or no money, goods or means of support

Question 2

What is absolute poverty?

Answer 2

Lack of basic essentials needed for survival e.g. Food, clothing, housing
Do not have minimum income to meet minimum requirements

Question 3

(Absolute) Bradshaw tried to develop a budget standard of poverty by calculating what?

Answer 3

What is needed to afford an acceptable living standard based on a costed list of items deemed essential

Question 4

(Absolute) criticism - measures of absolute poverty only take into account what?

Answer 4

What is needed for survival

Question 5

(Absolute) criticism - what do measures of absolute poverty not take into account?

Answer 5

What is required to participate in society e.g. Holidays, presents, to not necessities but are seen as social necessities

Question 6

What does relative poverty involve?

Answer 6

Judging whether income is so far below average they are excluded from a normal lifestyle

Question 7

(Relative) this definition makes poverty relative - why?

Answer 7

Will change overtime

Will chance between society e.g. Poverty in U.K. will be higher than India due to higher standard of living

Question 8

(Relative) what is a problem in measuring relative poverty?

Answer 8

Deciding which items are necessities

Question 9

(Relative) criticism - why will it never be possible to eradicate relative poverty?

Answer 9

There will always be people worse off

Question 10

consensual poverty is measuring poverty by looking at direct measures of what?

Answer 10

living standards e.g. running a fridge, affording fresh fruit and veg

Question 11

(consensual) Mack and Lansley asked what in group interviews?

Answer 11

which items of a list people saw as necessities

Question 12

(consensual) Mack and Lansley - what did they include in the list?

Answer 12

items seen as necessities by more than 50% of respondents

Question 13

(consensual) Mack and Lansely then did a survey of the population, how did they classify poor households?

Answer 13

lacking 3 or more necessities

Question 14

(consensual) Mack and Lansely then did a survey of the population, how did they classify severe poverty households?

Answer 14

lacking 5 or more necessities

Question 15

(consensual) Godon (2013) saw what since Mack and Lansley’s study?

Answer 15

a major increase in poverty

Question 16

(consensual) in 1983 Mack and Lansley found how many households lacked 3+ necessities?

Answer 16

14%

Question 17

(consensual) in 2013, Gordon found how many households lacked 3+ necessities?

Answer 17

33%

Question 18

(measuring UK poverty) in 1983 how many households were without heating?

Answer 18

5%

Question 19

(measuring UK poverty) in 2012 how many households were without heating?

Answer 19

9%

Question 20

(measuring UK poverty) in 1999 how many households were without fresh fruit and veg?

Answer 20

5%

Question 21

(measuring UK poverty) in 2012 how many households were without fresh fruit and veg?

Answer 21

7%

Question 22

(measuring UK poverty) in 1999 how many children went without going on a school trip every term?

Answer 22

2%

Question 23

(measuring UK poverty) in 2012 how many children went without going on a school trip every term?

Answer 23

8%

Question 24

(child poverty) how many children are in relative poverty?

Answer 24

1.4 million

Question 25

(child poverty) a family is seen as in relative poverty if their income is how far below average?

Answer 25

60%

Question 26

(child poverty) how many children are in poverty?(2013/14)

Answer 26

3/10

Question 27

(child poverty) how many children with one parent in work are in poverty?

Answer 27

2/3

Question 28

(child poverty) is it increasing or decreasing?

Answer 28

increasing

Question 29

what is HBAI?

Answer 29

households below average income

annual publication of poverty statistics