Tackling Poverty With Data
Understand what data tells us about poverty in the UK, how to find this data and how to use it to build effective responses to poverty
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What you’ll learn:
- The importance of data in designing responses to poverty
- Recent UK poverty trends, and what data tells us about how poverty affects different groups of people
- The tools we can use to gather and interpret poverty data and support people in poverty.
I loved it! I'm quite familiar with the data side, but since I don't have a policy background, I wasn't always aware of the policy histories and political discourse around some of the [poverty] measures. Further, it served as an excellent check-in point and reference for us to review our existing approaches.
[The course] covered main poverty data definitions, provided a useful intro to some of the types of data that are useful to a charity campaigning for reductions in child poverty, and gave a great insight into some resources and tools that can be used to gather and analyse that data