A small selection of my favourite posts from the Data Impact blog 5 things that official inflation figures don’t tell you about the minimum cost of living
We’ve since worked with Professor Donald Hirsch on our 2024 Poverty in Data event, but even back in 2018 we were facilitating discussion of how inflation impacts people. Donald framed this work in the context of his work with the Joseph Rowntree Foundation on creating the Minimum Income Standard, a widely recognised measure of people’s need to do more than just survive.
Merit or ‘fit’? and why it pays to be privileged
Using the ONS Labour Force hong kong rcs data Survey, Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman uncovered what they termed the ‘class ceiling’ – an innovative approach to social mobility research. They identified several factors which made it harder for young people from working class backgrounds to be able to enter job sectors including accountancy, creative industries and architecture.