Dataset: Family Resources Survey (Household)

Field: Household total, gross Income from Employment and Self-Employment in year prices (weekly, in nominal terms)

Options

• Weighted Median of Household total, gross Income from Employment and Self-Employment in year prices (weekly, in nominal terms)
• Weighted indicates that underlying sample of individuals in the Family Resources Survey (FRS) has been weighted or 'grossed up' to represent groups of individuals with certain characteristics in the whole population.
• Median income is the middle Household income identified by dividing the population of individuals, when ranked by income, into two equal-sized groups.

• Weighted Mean of Household total, gross Income from Employment and Self-Employment in year prices (weekly, in nominal terms)
• Weighted indicates that underlying sample of individuals in the Family Resources Survey (FRS) has been weighted or 'grossed up' to represent groups of individuals with certain characteristics in the whole population.
• Mean of household income is calculated by adding up incomes for each household in the population and dividing the result by the number of households.

Description

The total, gross earnings received by the household from employment and self-employment in year prices (weekly, in nominal 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.

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).

Earnings from employment / self-employment come from those who are employed / self-employed in their main job.

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

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