What do Labour Force Survey proxy responses tell us about rising long-term sickness in the UK?
You'd think that it's young people themselves responding to the LFS and telling you about their work and mental health - but you'd be wrong...
Inequalities
Research and reflection on welfare benefits, as well as wider aspects of inequalities. Mostly on the UK, but increasingly international. Run by Ben Baumberg Geiger (https://www.benbgeiger.co.uk/) [Logo is libra icon by icons8, https://icons8.com/]
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Latest posts
On “What’s really going on with mental health?” in the FT
Our research was unexpectedly featured in the Financial Times...
How to get disability statistics you can trust
My last post described the 'disability statistics disaster' - now I explain how to fix it
The disability statistics disaster
Why official statistics on disability don't show us trustworthy trends…
False accusations of fraud: lessons from the Carer’s Allowance Overpayments review
Is there anything more self-defeating than a benefits system that falsely accuses people of fraud?
The Timms Review and the Inequalities blog in 2026
Why I've been quiet, and what will happen on the blog in the rest of the year
If disability benefits spending is flat, then welfare spending is probably going down
Some figures to have to hand when looking through tomorrow's Budget
Have new WCA claims exploded in the last year?
Yet again, the DWP has been publishing data in a misleading way, making it hard to know what's going on...
Are out-of-work benefit claims at a record high?
The official statistics are wildly misleading - I've now made some new estimates that show just how wrong they are
Save the Health Survey for England!
It's very tricky to figure out if health has been getting worse - and it will get even harder if the plans to scrap the HSE go ahead