Indikator kunci dalam menilai kemiskinan dan ekslusi sosial bisa dilihat pada berbagai level, mulai dari individu sampai ke komunitas. Selengkapnya indikator yang kudu dilihat adalah :
Income
- Gap between low and median income, jarak antara pendapatan terendah dengan menengah
- Individuals with below 50% of average income, jumlah orang yang pendapatan rata-ratanya dibawah 50 persen
- Individuals with below 40% of average income, jumlah orang yang pendapatan rata-ratanya dibawah 40 persen
- Long-term recipients of benefits
- Individuals with spells of low income
- Self-reported difficulty managing financially
- Children living in workless households
- Children living in households with below 50% average income
- Low birthweight babies
- Accidental deaths
- Pupils gaining no GCSE grade C or above
- Permanently excluded from school
- Children whose parents divorce
- Births to girls conceiving under age 16
- Children in young offenders’ institutions
- Unemployed, menganggur
- On low rates of pay
- On severe hardship payments
- Starting drug treatment
- Suicide, bunuh diri
- Without basic qualification (at 19), tanpa kemampuan dasar
- With a criminal record (at 23), memiliki catatan kejahatan
Adults, untuk kelompok dewasa
- Individuals wanting paid work
- Households without work for 2 years or more
- On low rates of pay
- Insecure in employment
- Without access to training
- Premature death
- Limiting long-standing illness or disability
- Depression
Older People, untuk kalangan orang yang lebih tua
- Pensioners with no private income
- Spending on essentials
- Limiting long-standing illness or disability
- Anxiety
- Help from social services to live at home
- Without a telephone
Communities, kalo untuk mengukurnya di level komunitas, indikator yang digunakan adalah:
- Polarisation of work, bagaimana polarisasi sosial karena perbedaan pekerjaan terjadi
- Spending on travel of poorest, relative to middle income
- Lacking a bank or building society account
- Non-participation in civic organisations
- Dissatisfaction with local area
- Vulnerability to crime
- Homes lacking central heating
- Households in temporary accommodation
- Overcrowding
- Mortgage arrears
sumber: http://www.radstats.org.uk/no071/article2a.htm
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