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Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002

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Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002. / Brown, Heather; Albani, Viviana; Munford, Luke Aaron et al.
In: Social Science and Humanities, 07.02.2024.

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Brown, H, Albani, V, Munford, LA, Sutton, M, McHardy, F, Silverman, E, Richiardi, M, Pearce, A, Heppenstall, A, Meier, P, Thomson, R & Katikireddi, SV 2024, 'Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002', Social Science and Humanities.

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Brown, H., Albani, V., Munford, L. A., Sutton, M., McHardy, F., Silverman, E., Richiardi, M., Pearce, A., Heppenstall, A., Meier, P., Thomson, R., & Katikireddi, S. V. (in press). Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002. Social Science and Humanities.

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Brown H, Albani V, Munford LA, Sutton M, McHardy F, Silverman E et al. Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002. Social Science and Humanities. 2024 Feb 7.

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Brown, Heather ; Albani, Viviana ; Munford, Luke Aaron et al. / Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners : Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002. In: Social Science and Humanities. 2024.

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@article{709a380c15d14e5dbb9b62b5b943a4cb,
title = "Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners: Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002",
abstract = "A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ for women and aged 65+ for men) in England. The data used is from the British Household Panel Survey including 9430 observations from 1,893 people, from 1999-2002. We estimated a random effects logistic regression. Results show that women were less likely to claim than men (OR ranging from 0.17 [95% CI 0.10-0.29]-0.73 [95% CI 0.40-1.34]), and couples were less likely to claim (OR ranging from 0.04 [95% CI 0.03-0.06]-0.01 [95%CI 0.01-0.02] ) than single person households. People with better mental health (OR 1.05 95% CI 1.02-1.08), older pensioners (75+) (OR ranging from 1.98 [95% CI 1.52-2.59]-2.81 [95%CI 2.16-3.67]), those who were registered disabled (OR 4.03 95% CI 2.50-6.52), and those with no formal qualification (OR ranging from 1.74 [95%CI 0.93-3.26]-2.07 [95% CI 1.22-3.51]) were more likely to claim. Understanding who is likely to claim MIGs is important to avoid social security policy inadvertently increasing inequalities. ",
author = "Heather Brown and Viviana Albani and Munford, {Luke Aaron} and Matt Sutton and Fiona McHardy and Eric Silverman and Matteo Richiardi and Anna Pearce and Allison Heppenstall and Petra Meier and Rachel Thomson and Katikireddi, {Srinivasa Vittal}",
year = "2024",
month = feb,
day = "7",
language = "English",
journal = "Social Science and Humanities",
issn = "2590-2911",
publisher = "Elsevier",

}

RIS

TY - JOUR

T1 - Association between individual level characteristics and take-up of a Minimum Income Guarantee for Pensioners

T2 - Panel Data Analysis using data from the British Household Panel survey 1999-2002

AU - Brown, Heather

AU - Albani, Viviana

AU - Munford, Luke Aaron

AU - Sutton, Matt

AU - McHardy, Fiona

AU - Silverman, Eric

AU - Richiardi, Matteo

AU - Pearce, Anna

AU - Heppenstall, Allison

AU - Meier, Petra

AU - Thomson, Rachel

AU - Katikireddi, Srinivasa Vittal

PY - 2024/2/7

Y1 - 2024/2/7

N2 - A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ for women and aged 65+ for men) in England. The data used is from the British Household Panel Survey including 9430 observations from 1,893 people, from 1999-2002. We estimated a random effects logistic regression. Results show that women were less likely to claim than men (OR ranging from 0.17 [95% CI 0.10-0.29]-0.73 [95% CI 0.40-1.34]), and couples were less likely to claim (OR ranging from 0.04 [95% CI 0.03-0.06]-0.01 [95%CI 0.01-0.02] ) than single person households. People with better mental health (OR 1.05 95% CI 1.02-1.08), older pensioners (75+) (OR ranging from 1.98 [95% CI 1.52-2.59]-2.81 [95%CI 2.16-3.67]), those who were registered disabled (OR 4.03 95% CI 2.50-6.52), and those with no formal qualification (OR ranging from 1.74 [95%CI 0.93-3.26]-2.07 [95% CI 1.22-3.51]) were more likely to claim. Understanding who is likely to claim MIGs is important to avoid social security policy inadvertently increasing inequalities.

AB - A Minimum Income Guarantee (MIG) ensures people have a minimum amount of income for essentials such as healthy food, housing, health care, social and digital networks to support health and well-being. MIGs could be a useful tool to reduce inequalities. A MIG will only be effective if those who are eligible take it up. The aim of this paper is to explore how individual characteristics were associated with take-up of a MIG for pensioners (aged 60+ for women and aged 65+ for men) in England. The data used is from the British Household Panel Survey including 9430 observations from 1,893 people, from 1999-2002. We estimated a random effects logistic regression. Results show that women were less likely to claim than men (OR ranging from 0.17 [95% CI 0.10-0.29]-0.73 [95% CI 0.40-1.34]), and couples were less likely to claim (OR ranging from 0.04 [95% CI 0.03-0.06]-0.01 [95%CI 0.01-0.02] ) than single person households. People with better mental health (OR 1.05 95% CI 1.02-1.08), older pensioners (75+) (OR ranging from 1.98 [95% CI 1.52-2.59]-2.81 [95%CI 2.16-3.67]), those who were registered disabled (OR 4.03 95% CI 2.50-6.52), and those with no formal qualification (OR ranging from 1.74 [95%CI 0.93-3.26]-2.07 [95% CI 1.22-3.51]) were more likely to claim. Understanding who is likely to claim MIGs is important to avoid social security policy inadvertently increasing inequalities.

M3 - Journal article

JO - Social Science and Humanities

JF - Social Science and Humanities

SN - 2590-2911

ER -