The Department for Work and Pensions produces data on children in material deprivation and low income households by area. This is done on a before housing costs basis.

1. Material Deprivation
Financial year ending 2018

2. The Department for Work and Pensions produces data on children in material
deprivation and low income households by area. This is done on a before
housing costs basis.
They also produce figures on pensioners in material deprivation by area.
Further information on material deprivation in Wales can be obtained from the
National Survey for Wales.
Material Deprivation

3. Percentage of children who were living in material deprivation and low
income households (before housing costs), three-financial-year averages
%
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
18
2011 to 2014 2012 to 2015 2013 to 2016 2014 to 2017 2015 to 2018

4. 12 per cent of children living in Wales were in
material deprivation and low income households
• 12 per cent of children living in Wales between 2015-16 and 2017-18 were in
material deprivation and low income households.
• This means they could not access a certain number of goods and services and
the total household income was below 70 per cent of the UK average
household income – before housing costs were paid.
• This is up from the 10 per cent reported last year.
• This rate is now equal to the corresponding figure seen in England. The figures
for Scotland and Northern Ireland are 11 and 8 per cent respectively.
• In the most recent period (2015-16 to 2017-18), all regions of England except
East, East Midlands, Outer London, South East and South West had a higher
percentage of children in material deprivation and low income households than
Wales.

5. 9 per cent of pensioners living in Wales were in
material deprivation
• This means 9 per cent of pensioners living in Wales were in a household that
could not access a certain number of goods and services. This is the same
rate as reported last year.
• The rate has stood at 9 per cent for six of the last seven periods between
2009-10 to 2011-12 to 2015-16 to 2017-18.
• In Scotland this figure stands at 6 per cent, same as reported last year. In
Northern Ireland the figure also stands at 6 per cent, down from the 7 per cent
reported last year while the figure for England has also dropped from the 8 per
cent reported last year to 7 per cent.