Browne has also analysed the losses to be felt by different household types.
Families with children lose more than pensioners or other household types in all except the top-three income groups.
The MIS is calculated for each of nine household types, assuming that adults are in work and claiming benefits and tax credits to which they are entitled.
Disposable income is that which is left after direct taxes such as national insurance, income and council tax and these figures have been adjusted to reflect the composition of different household types.
As part of our study we conducted 75 in-depth interviews with 56 women and 19 men from different household types in Brimbank, Dandenong and Whittlesea – all areas with high levels household financial stress in Melbourne.
is the number of different household types.
Fig. 1 Geographical distribution by household types.
Our socio-economic analysis focuses on six household types.
All household types show a dispersion between 1.17 and 1.65.
To test the system's applicability, we utilized data collected by two household types for one month.
We match female and male headed households to make both household types comparable.
