Earnings from Employment and Self-Employment received by the Household

Dataset: Family Resources Survey (Household)

Field: Earnings from Employment and Self-Employment received by the Household

Description

Whether the household receives earnings from employment and self-employment in latest prices (equivalised SPI-adjusted in CPI-adjusted real terms), as reported by FRS respondents, where:

A household consists of one person living alone or a group of people (not necessarily related) living at the same address, who share cooking facilities and share a living room or sitting room or dining area. A household will consist of one or more benefit units.

Classification

Applicable to: all individuals in a household.

Number of categories: 2

Quality Statement

For a respondent currently working as an employee, gross earnings from wages and salaries are equal to gross pay before any deductions, any refunds of income tax, any motoring and mileage expenses, any refunds for items of household expenditure, any Statutory Sick Pay or Statutory Maternity Pay, any bonuses received over the last 12 months and any children's earnings from part-time jobs.

Self-employed earnings are defined as the total amount of earnings received from self-employment gross of tax and national insurance payments, based on profits (where the individual considers themself as running a business) or on estimated drawings otherwise. Excludes any profits due to partners in the business. Any losses are recorded as such.

Earnings from employment include both earnings from adults plus any earnings from children.

For 2020-21 and 2021-22, wages are treated as earnings rather than state support, irrespective of any support payments from CJRS that the respondent's employer was receiving in respect of their employment.

For 2020-21 and 2021-22, self-employed earnings do not include any reported grant amounts received as part of the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS).

Several respondents have more than one job. The FRS identifies which of these is their "main job" which is the job which the respondent says is the dominant activity. Where they cannot decide, the number of hours worked will determine which is the main job. This process of categorisation also applies to respondents who are employees in one job but self-employed in another; whilst the survey will capture information on both of these jobs, only one can be their main job.

Further information can be found in the FRS Background Note and Methodology here.