Footnotes
1. See, for example, Nelson et al (2007)
2. The income that a household needs to attain a given standard of living will depend on its size and composition. For example, a couple with dependent children will need a higher income than a single person with no children to attain the same material living standards. "Equivalisation" means adjusting a household's income for size and composition so that we can look at the incomes of all households on a comparable basis.
3. An 'other adult' was any person in the household aged 16 or over who was not a partner or spouse of the respondent.
4. Note that in cases where the respondent lives with other adults, this data relies on their reporting of the incomes of other people in the household, which is often an estimate. As such, this data should be treated with some caution.
5. Including both those who lived with other adults and those who did not
6. Measured using the 5-category version of National Statistics Socio-Economic Classification ( NS- SEC)
7. Measured using quintiles of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation