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6. Which of the following is not an element of social exclusion according to Room?

  • Neighbourhood dimension
  • Dynamic (events that trigger entry and exit)
  • Relational
  • Relativity
  • Multi-dimensional (not just measuring income)

7. Which of the following is not an element of social exclusion according to Atkinson?

  • Dynamic
  • Relativity
  • Relational
  • Agency

8. You are income poor if you earn less than what percentage of the median income?

  • 70%
  • 60%
  • 40%
  • 50%

9. What percent of children were in absolute poverty in 2008/9?

  • 11%
  • 17%
  • 12%
  • 9%

10. Who argues that poverty is an absolute notion in the space of capabilities and is a relative notion in the space of commodities?

  • Sin
  • Sun
  • Sen
  • San

11. Who finds that people compare their situation to those close to them rather than extremes of wealth?

  • Goldman
  • Dunciman
  • Runciman
  • Cinnaman

12. In 2010 in the UK, what percentage of people blame laziness for generational cycles of poverty?

  • 25%
  • 15%
  • 20%
  • 30%

13. Who says that poverty is a lack of power or a lack or voice?

  • Hister
  • Mister
  • Lister
  • Twister

14. How much pensions/housing/council tax benefit goes unclaimed every year?

  • £4.4 billion
  • £4.4 million
  • £5.5 billion
  • £5.5 million

15. Who finds that 'the more we target benefits at the poor only and the more concerned we are with creating equality via equal public transfers to all, the less likely we are to reduce poverty and inequality'?

  • Reay and Lucey
  • Titmuss
  • Korpi and Palme
  • Daly

16. In 2009, how many 18 year old girls who were eligible for FSM in year 11 had been pregnant once, compared with one in ten girls not eligible?

  • one in 8
  • one in 4
  • one in 5
  • one in 6

17. Children from which families are twice as likely to live in relative poverty than children from white families?

  • middle-eastern
  • black and minority ethnic
  • central european
  • eastern european

18. How much means-tested benefits goes unclaimed annually?

  • £8 billion
  • £18 million
  • £18 billion
  • £8 million

19. Who points out that health, housing and working conditions all impact standard of living but they are not included in income or expenditure?

  • Hughes
  • Townsend
  • Machin
  • Bradshaw

20. What percent of children were in both low income and material deprivation in 2008/9?

  • 15%
  • 22%
  • 17%
  • 11%