Briefing Note - Admin-based Income Statistics (ABIS)

Key Facts The lowest median Gross PAYE and benefits equivalised household income deciles The highest median equivalised gross Region equivalised gross £26,535 10th 30th 50th 70th 90th household PAYE and £28,041 Percentile Percentile Percentile Percentile Percentile household PAYE and benefits income in benefits income in in Warwickshire in 2015/16 was £11,117 £19,163 £26,474 £36,616 £58,327 2015/16 was & District £29,059 Warwickshire £12,250 £20,766 £28,787 £39,586 £62,042 Borough 10% of households 10% of households North in Warwick District earn more than £31,144 £12,681 £20,719 £28,041 £37,486 £54,868 earn more than £51,720 - Warwickshire £71,289 - the significantly lower highest 90th than the equivalent £29,467 Nuneaton & percentile figure figure for Warwick Bedworth £12,630 £19,916 £26,535 £35,330 £51,720 District

Rugby £12,434 £21,057 £29,059 £39,567 £60,742

£11,117 £26,474 £58,327 England Stratford-on- £11,627 £20,770 £29,467 £41,532 £69,479 Avon £12,681 £28,787 £62,042 Warwickshire Warwick £11,955 £21,635 £31,144 £44.265 £71,289

£12,681 £28,041 £54,868 North Summary Warwickshire The admin-based income statistics (AMIS) bring together data from the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and benefit systems to derive small-area estimates of net and £12,630 £26,535 £51,720 Nuneaton & gross income for the 2015/16 tax year. Bedworth The ABIS are defined as experimental statistics, because both the income measure £12,434 £29,059 £60,742 and coverage are currently incomplete; therefore these statistics have limited use Rugby for decision-making. Instead, the ABIS demonstrate the potential to produce small area income statistics from administrative data to allow some interim £11,627 £29,467 £69,479 evaluation to be made (taking their partial coverage into account). They also allow Stratford-on- us to start comparing administrative data-based estimates with other survey- Avon based household income statistics. £11,955 £31,144 £71,289 Further information on this ONS release can be found here: Warwick Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/census/censustransformationprogramme/administrativedat £10,000 £20,000 £30,000 £40,000 £50,000 £60,000 £70,000 acensusproject/administrativedatacensusresearchoutputs/populationcharacteristics/ adminbasedincomestatisticsenglandandwalestaxyearending2016 10th percentile Median 90th percentile

The chart above shows the equivalised gross households PAYE and benefits income for the tax year 2015/16, by borough / district (as well as the county and national figures). The 10th percentile (90% of households earn more than this figure) and A report produced by the Insight Service, January 2019 90th percentile (10% of households earn more than this figure) of PAYE and benefits income are also shown. There was If you have any questions or feedback, please do get in touch at: more variation in the difference between the boroughs and districts at the 90th percentile than at the 10th percentile. [email protected]