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SOCIAL EXCLUSION IN GREAT BRITAIN

Social Exclusion in Great Britain

An Empirical Investigation and Comparison with the EU

MATT BARNES

National Centre for Social Research, UK

First published 2005 by Ashgate Publishing

Reissued 2019 by Routledge
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Contents

Matt Barnes is a Senior Researcher at the National Centre for Social Research, London, UK (m.barnes@natcen.ac.uk). His research interests are the conceptualization and measurement of poverty and social exclusion, and issues of work-life balance.

This book builds upon theoretical discussions of social exclusion to construct an empirical model, using quantitative survey data, to investigate the nature and extent of social exclusion in Great Britain. This investigation of social exclusion is also taken to a European level by comparing findings for Great Britain with other European Union (EU) Member States. The crux of the investigation, the operationalization and measurement of social exclusion, is achieved through the use of quantitative research methods involving secondary analysis of two complex longitudinal datasets the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS) and the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) survey.

The theoretical foundation of the book is a clarification of the conceptual properties that are crucial to the notion of social exclusion. Two of the most important theoretical properties of social exclusion are that it incorporates the use of information on a range of disadvantage domains and that it uses the concept of time to identify the most disadvantaged individuals. The operationalization of social exclusion is carried out through the use of quantitative techniques to construct binary outcome indicators of separate domains of social exclusion: financial situation (income poverty), material possessions, housing circumstance, neighbourhood perception, social relations, physical health and mental health. The indicators are used in various ways independently and concurrently, and, at a point in time and longitudinally to provide an in-depth investigation of the multidimensional and longitudinal nature of social exclusion. Thus a multi-dimensional and longitudinal model of social exclusion is constructed to identify the prevalence of social exclusion in Great Britain and to distinguish socio-demographic characteristics of individuals associated with an increased likelihood of such experiences.

The empirical model of social exclusion is then used in a comparative manner to place the experiences of Great Britain in a European context. This is achieved by comparing and contrasting the prevalence and nature of social exclusion in Great Britain with other EU Member States. The book concludes by summarising the theoretical and policy implications of operationalizing social exclusion in this way, including a discussion for developments to the governments indicators of poverty and social exclusion detailed in the Opportunity for all report.

This book is based on work I undertook at the University of Bath and, in particular, research for my Ph.D. thesis. Hence I am indebted to my Ph.D. supervisor, Professor Jane Millar, for the assistance and support she provided. I am also thankful to colleagues on the European Commission funded Targeted Socio-Economic Research project, in particular Professor Chris Heady with whom I spent many hours discussing issues of social exclusion and the intricacies of the ECHP dataset. I must also thank Karl Ashworth for advice on constructing patterns of disadvantage used in . On a more logistical note, I am grateful to Eric Marlier at Eurostat for providing access to the ECHP dataset and to the Data Archive at the University of Essex for providing access to the BHPS dataset.

Finally I would like to thank my family and friends for the endless encouragement they have given me during my Ph.D. research and in preparation for this book. I apologise if I have neglected them in any way during this time and only hope I can be as generous if they ever call on me for support.

BHPS British Household Panel Study

DSS Department of Social Security

DWP Department of Work and Pensions

ECHP European Community Household Panel (survey)

EU European Union

EU-12 The 12 European Union Member States present in the fust three waves of the ECHP survey (Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom)

FWLS Family and Working Lives Survey

GHS General Household Survey

HED Household Economic Deprivation

ONS Office for National Statistics

PCE Personal Civic Exclusion

PDI Proportional Disadvantage Index

PHE Personal Health Exclusion

PSE Poverty and Social Exclusion Survey

PSEI Proportional Social Exclusion Index

RPI Retail Price Index

UK United Kingdom

UN United Nations

Chapter 1
Towards An Empirical Operationalization of Social Exclusion

Existing definitions of poverty and deprivation are sufficiently broad to incorporate attention to a range of dimensions, to take a longitudinal view, and to allow for causes of disadvantage other than low income, but most research has not reflected all these elements (Burchardt, 2000, p. 388).

New Labour has embraced the notion of social exclusion, describing it as the greatest social crisis in our times (Peter Mandelson, 1997) and has placed the reduction of social exclusion at the forefront of Government social policy. Despite such well-intentioned commitments there is a lack of clarity, within both academic and political circles, about what the notion of social exclusion actually captures and this is something that can seriously undermine policy making. One of the reasons for this ambiguity is the limited extent of attempts to operationalize and understand social exclusion empirically. The aim of the book therefore is to build upon theoretical discussions of social exclusion to construct an empirical model, using quantitative survey data, to investigate the nature and extent of social exclusion in Great Britain. This investigation of social exclusion is also taken to a European level by comparing findings for Great Britain with other European Union (EU) Member States.1

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