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Family Resources Survey user meeting

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Family Resources Survey user meeting

Thursday 30 April 2009

Royal Statistical Society, London

This meeting will provide a forum for data users and producers to meet and discuss new developments and exchange information about the Family Resources Survey.

The meeting is free to attend and lunch is provided. For more details and to book a place please go to http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2009-04-30/”>http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/esds/events/2009-04-30/

Programme

10.00 Coffee and registration
   
  Morning chair: Julie Sullivan, Department for Work and Pensions
   
10.30 Family Resources Survey: recent developments
Fiona Dawe, Office for National Statistics and Jo Maher, NatCen
   
11.00 Data linking on the FRS
Jo Cockerham, Department for Work and Pensions
   
11.30 Coffee
   
11.50 Income related benefits: Estimates of take-up using the FRS
Ed Smithson, Department for Work and Pensions
   
12.30 Use of FRS data in the ONS publication ‘Pension Trends’
Chris Daffin, Office for National Statistics
   
13.10 ESDS Resources
Vanessa Higgins, ESDS Government
   
13.30 Lunch
   
  Afternoon chair: Anthony Rafferty, ESDS Government
   
14.15 Households savings and wealth effect: Evidence from Great Britain
Giuseppe Cornicello, University of Bath
   
14.55 Modelling financial eligibility for Legal Aid.
Graham Stark, Virtual Worlds
   
15.35 Poverty and inequality during past recessions: preliminary findings
Luke Sibieta, Institute for Fiscal Studies
   
16.15 Closing remarks
   
16.30 End
 

 

 

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