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Mr. Kirkwood
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will update table 25 from the Family Expenditure Survey of 1990, showing the total disposable income of households by deciles for different household composition to 1991.
| Distribution of aggregate disposable income of households—1991 Selected groups of households | |||||||||
| Total disposable income of households (£) | As a percentage of the median | ||||||||
| Lowest decile | Lower quartile | Median | Upper quartile | Highest decile | Lowest decile | Lower decile | Upper quartile | Highest decile | |
| Composition of household | |||||||||
| One adult | 53·56 | 65·66 | 111·51 | 200·21 | 292·05 | 48·0 | 58·9 | 179·5 | 261·9 |
| Retired households mainly dependent on state pensions | 52·73 | 55·39 | 63·50 | 84·07 | 102·08 | 83·0 | 87·2 | 132·4 | 160·8 |
| Other retired households | 88·95 | 106·59 | 142·18 | 196·35 | 265·82 | 62·6 | 75·0 | 138·1 | 187·0 |
| Non-retired households | 47·60 | 88·51 | 176·43 | 261·80 | 349·15 | 27·0 | 50·2 | 148·4 | 197·9 |
| One adult, one child | 60·69 | 65·45 | 88·17 | 171·40 | 251·75 | 68·8 | 74·2 | 194·4 | 285·5 |
| One adult, two or more children | 72·85 | 84·68 | 124·20 | 201·38 | 338·37 | 58·7 | 68·2 | 162·1 | 272·4 |
| One man one woman | 116·71 | 177·94 | 275·13 | 420·20 | 565·42 | 42·4 | 64·7 | 152·7 | 205·5 |
| Retired households mainly dependent on state pensions | 88·51 | 101·11 | 121·06 | 140·58 | 163·78 | 73·1 | 83·5 | 116·1 | 135·3 |
| Other retired households | 143·46 | 174·24 | 219·99 | 298·52 | 437·55 | 65·2 | 79·2 | 135·7 | 198·9 |
| Non-retired households | 162·58 | 239·16 | 340·75 | 465·72 | 626·81 | 47·7 | 70·2 | 136·7 | 183·9 |
| Two men or two women | 119·31 | 159·61 | 261·61 | 375·56 | 478·65 | 45·6 | 61·0 | 143·6 | 183·0 |
| One man one woman, one child | 146·87 | 227·25 | 323·32 | 448·57 | 594·79 | 45·4 | 70·3 | 138·7 | 184·0 |
| One man one woman, two children | 174·30 | 252·20 | 338·59 | 453·17 | 601·33 | 51·5 | 74·5 | 133·8 | 177·6 |
| One man one woman, three children | 135·28 | 246·52 | 348·93 | 479·43 | 689·17 | 38·8 | 70·7 | 137·4 | 197·5 |