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This note was written for the Department for Work and Pensions, to help assess the potential for refining the bootstrap methodology used to produce confidence intervals for the Households Below Average Income statistics.
Authors
![Mike Brewer](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-07/Mike%20Brewer.jpg?itok=3JdYlHV1)
Mike Brewer
![Robert Joyce](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/Rob_Joyce.jpg?itok=4UaBJrrb)
Deputy Director
Robert is a Deputy Director. His work focuses on primarily on the labour market, income and wealth inequality, and the design of the welfare system.
![Person graphic](/sites/default/files/styles/square_desktop/public/2022-06/IFS-person-graphic.png?itok=hWCtTSrz)
Olga Gdula
Report details
- Publisher
- IFS
Suggested citation
M, Brewer and O, Gdula and R, Joyce. (2017). Refining the bootstrap methodology for HBAI statistics. London: IFS. Available at: https://ifs.org.uk/publications/refining-bootstrap-methodology-hbai-statistics (accessed: 30 June 2024).
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