Living Costs and Food Survey

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1 Living Costs and Food Survey Main results and developments Giles Horsfield

2 Main government uses of the survey Retail Prices Index Consumer Prices Index Spending patterns of population Household expenditure for GDP Effect of taxes and benefits Food consumption and nutrition

3 Headline figure 2011 Average household weekly expenditure was 484 This compares with 474 in 2010 and 455 in 2009

4 Average weekly expenditure on main commodities and services 2011 Transport Recreation & culture Housing, fuel & power Food & non-alcoholic drinks Restaurants & hotels Miscellaneous goods & services Household goods & services Clothing & footwear Communication Alcoholic drinks, tobacco & narcotics Education Health Expenditure ( ) Source: Living Costs and Food Survey, Office for National Statistics

5 Changes over time (percentage of total expenditure) Other expenditure items Transport Recreation & culture Housing fuel & power Food & non-alcoholic drinks Restaurants & hotels Miscellaneous goods & services Household goods & services Clothing and footwear Communication Alcoholic, tobacco, narcotics Education Health 2001/ Percentage of total expenditure

6 Spending on transport 2011 Transport Purchase of vehicles Running costs of vehicles Petrol, diesel and other motor oils Transport services a week a week a week a week a week

7 Expenditure decreased in some categories in 2011 Household goods and services: a week ( in 2010) Furniture spending down 2.80 to Clothing and footwear a week ( in 2010)

8 Housing-related costs (renters and mortgage holders) 77 a week - average net rent paid by renters London 131 Scotland a week - average mortgage payment by mortgage holders London 179 Northern Ireland 110

9 Expenditure by country and region UK Average (3 years) London South East East Northern Ireland South West England East Midlands North West Scotland West Midlands Yorks & the Humber Wales North East Source: Living Costs and Food Survey, Office for National Statistics

10 Home computer and internet connection at home by income decile 2011 Percent Lowest Highest Home computer Internet connection Source: Living Costs and Food Survey, Office for National Statistics

11 Highlights.. Expenditure has increased slightly in 2011 Average weekly expenditure has increased on: Transport Housing Food and non-alcoholic drinks Average weekly expenditure has decreased on: Clothing and footwear Household Goods and services

12 Living Costs and Food Survey: developing Family Spending and other outputs Louise Skilton

13 Drivers for change UKSA assessment Feedback from users via Survey Monkey Feedback from users via LCF user engagement event Standards for statistical bulletins Feedback from the media

14 LCF made the following improvements to Family Spending outputs Revised LCF Landing page external related links and articles added

15 LCF made the following improvements to Family Spending outputs Changed from downloadable Pdf to articles on the website

16 LCF made the following improvements to Family Spending outputs Added expert commentary: ONS experts in income and expenditure added commentary to provide wider context to estimates Additional article in regional trends written by ONS regional experts Podcast Added to provide a summary of the statistics with commentary Conducted a twitter Q&A session Facebook status updates and tweets

17 Outcomes The revised website layout of Family Spending (2012 edition) led to 19,000 page views compared to 12,000 the previous year UKSA awarded LCF National Statistics accreditation The pod cast received 2,200 page views

18 Future plans for Family Spending Statistical Workshop Products Group Interactive graphs Revision of where LCF landing page sits within ONS websitecould it be more intuitive? Potential for additional articles Further overhaul of commentary for Family Spending chapters in line with Standards for statistical bulletins

19 Inflation Survey primarily designed as an annual snapshot, but high level of interest in time series- media etc Chapter 4: Trends in Household Expenditure over Time Review presentation for 2013 edition

20 Other changes to outputs: LCF Further work to improve user guides, including scope of flow charts, to improve information for UK Data Service dataset customers Feedback from users is very useful any thoughts? Datasets streamlined to aid user interpretation Technical report published on ONS website

21 Other changes to outputs: ONS New style quality reports (QMI), focussing on key quality criteria New publication rules mean that all new bespoke tabulations need to be published or announced on ONS website

22 Any questions?