Effects of Alcohol and Tobacco Duties on UK Household Income, 1995-2010

Analyses the effects of duties on alcohol and tobacco on equivalised household disposable income from 1995/96 to 2009/10. The dataset is designated as National Statistics and produced by the Office for National Statistics. It is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0.

Use Cases

• Modeling the distributional impact of sin taxes based on equivalised household disposable income.
• Analyzing trends in tax burden on households over the 1995-2010 period.
• Evaluating policy scenarios for alcohol and tobacco duties on different income groups.

Strengths

• Produced by the Office for National Statistics and designated as National Statistics, indicating official status.
• Covers a 15-year time range from 1995/96 to 2009/10 for longitudinal analysis.
• Focuses on equivalised household disposable income, a standard measure for income distribution studies.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data coverage ends in 2009/10; freshness should be verified for contemporary policy analysis.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Analysis of household survey and duty data, likely from the Living Costs and Food Survey or similar sources.

Time Range

1995/96 to 2009/10

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:02.837764; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom