Household food security in fye 2020 a measure of

Household Food Security
In FYE 2020 a measure of combined low income and household food security
was added. For details on measurement and definitions please see the FRS
Background Information and Methodology document
(-
to-2021)
.
Ethnicity categories
The ethnicity questions used in the FRS adopt the UK harmonised standards
for use in major Government social surveys; that is, they adopt the standard
way of collecting information on the ways in which people describe their ethnic
identity. The latest harmonised standards were published in August 2011 and
cover the ethnic group question in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern
Ireland. They also cover harmonised data presentation for ethnic group
outputs. The standards were updated in February 2013 detailing how Gypsy,
Traveller and Irish Traveller should be recorded in the outputs, due to
differences across the UK.
The FRS adopted these latest harmonised standards for England, Wales and
Northern Ireland for the FYE 2012 survey questionnaire, and the standards for
Scotland were adopted for the FYE 2013 survey questionnaire. The FYE 2012
publication therefore adopted the latest harmonised output standards for ethnic
groups for the UK. The most significant changes to previous publications are
that the ‘Chinese’ category has moved from the ‘Chinese or other ethnic group’
section to the ‘Asian/Asian British’ section; and ‘Irish Traveller’ is included
under ‘Other ethnic group’ for respondents in Northern Ireland and ‘Gypsy or
Irish Traveller’ is included under the ‘White’ section for respondents in Great
Britain, therefore UK figures have been allocated accordingly.
Disability definition

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The means of identifying people with a disability has changed over time. Data
are not available for FYE 1995. Up until FYE 2002 all those who reported
having a long-standing limiting illness were identified as having a disability.
From FYE 2003, statistics are based on responses to questions about
difficulties across a number of areas of life. Figures for FYE 2003 and FYE
2004 are based on those reporting substantial difficulties across eight areas of
life and figures from FYE 2005 to FYE 2012 are based on those reporting
substantial difficulties across nine areas of life. From FYE 2013 the FRS
disability questions were revised to reflect new harmonised standards
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. Disabled
people are identified as those who report any physical or mental health
condition(s) or illness(es) that last or are expected to last 12 months or more,
and which limit their ability to carry out day-to-day activities a little, or a lot.