Wealth in Great Britain: Combined Income and Wealth Analysis, 2010-2012

Great Britain's household wealth and income data from the third wave of the Wealth and Assets Survey, covering the period 2010 to 2012. The dataset is produced by the Office for National Statistics and designated as National Statistics. It provides a combined analysis of income and wealth for this period.

Use Cases

• Modeling household wealth inequality based on combined income and wealth data.
• Analyzing the relationship between income and asset ownership for the 2010-2012 period.
• Benchmarking regional economic disparities within Great Britain using survey results.
• Studying the impact of economic conditions on household balance sheets following the 2008 financial crisis.

Strengths

• Designated as National Statistics, indicating adherence to official quality standards.
• Covers a specific three-year period (2010-2012) for temporal analysis.
• Based on the third wave of a major national survey, the Wealth and Assets Survey.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2010-2012 survey period.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Survey results from the third wave of the Wealth and Assets Survey.

Time Range

2010-2012

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:06.619451; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain