Wealth Inequalities

Question 1

Understood as a persons earnings from their employment, pensions etc … is known as?

Answer 1

Income

Question 2

Total value of a persons assets is known as …

Answer 2

wealth

Question 3

The unemployment rate as of September 2023 in Scotland was

Answer 3

4.1%

Question 4

This means that almost how much of Scotland’s workforce is out of work?

Answer 4

1 in 20

Question 5

For households where no one is in employment the poverty rate is roughly what % according to JRF.

Answer 5

50%

Question 6

In households where there is one person in full time work the poverty rate is …

Answer 6

10%

Question 7

This means that the difference in poverty rate between households that are in work and are worklessness is what %?

Answer 7

40%

Question 8

According to JRF households who are receipt of Universal Credit have a poverty rate of what %?

Answer 8

54%

Question 9

More than 3/5 of individuals who experience poverty in the UK are in a working household?

Answer 9

True

Question 10

Education is known as the what when it comes to escaping poverty?

Answer 10

The silver bullet

Question 11

Those with higher levels of education are statistically less likely to experience poverty

Answer 11

True

Question 12

How much of the UK experiencing poverty have no formal qualifications?

Answer 12

40%

Question 13

What are the 5 C’s?

Answer 13

Cleaning, catering, clerical, cashiering and childcare.

Question 14

What % of lone parent families are headed by women?

Answer 14

90%

Question 15

The poverty rate for working age adults is what %?

Answer 15

20%

Question 16

The benefit system in 2023 offers significantly less support than the system did in 2010?

Answer 16

True

Question 17

The poverty rate for administration and support services has gone up by 4 percentage points from 19% in 2011/12 to ____% by 2022

Answer 17

23%

Question 18

What is the overall poverty rate for the whole of the UK?

Answer 18

22%

Question 19

What is the poverty rate for Scotland?

Answer 19

19%

Question 20

Just over 1 in 10 working-age adults with an undergraduate degree or above are living in poverty compared with more than 4 in 10 working-age adults with no qualifications?

Answer 20

True

Question 21

Why is education more likely to reduce your likelihood of experiencing poverty in Scotland than it is for the rest of the UK?

Answer 21

Tuition fees are free in Scotland.

Question 22

It has been illegal for over 40 years to pay men and women different money for the same job?

Answer 22

True

Question 23

When we look at the average of earnings across all sectors we can see that men earn on average £652 for full time work while women earn on average £____

Answer 23

£558

Question 24

According to Close the Gap Scotland for every £1 a man earns a women earns

Answer 24

90p

Question 25

In a recent survey by the Scottish Government _____% of respondents identified changing from a working to a workless household as the causal factor in their experience of poverty.

Answer 25

22%

Question 26

What is the NMW for workers over the age of 23?

Answer 26

£10.42

Question 27

According to the real living wage, the min wage should be …

Answer 27

£10.90

Question 28

The rate of inflation during the cost of living crisis reached a high of 11% whilst welfare increased by

Answer 28

3.1%

Question 29

It is estimated that in 2019-22, ____% of children in relative poverty after housing costs were living in working households.

Answer 29

69%

Question 30

The socio-economic gap in education starts early with children from less affluent backgrounds already underperforming at the age of _____.

Answer 30

3

Question 31

The Robertson Trust states that 1 in 10 school leavers living in the most deprived areas in Scotland are unemployed in the 9 months post school compared to just _____% of young people living in affluent areas.

Answer 31

2.6%

Question 32

Jordanhill in Glasgow (affluent) have 91% of school leavers leaving with 5 highers or more compared to Northfield Academy (deprived) who have just _____%

Answer 32

7

Question 33

English students can pay up to £______ a year to go to university

Answer 33

£9,250

Question 34

_____% of single women with children live in poverty

Answer 34

38%

Question 35

1 in 4 children in Scotland live in poverty which is about what %

Answer 35

24%

Question 36

The poverty rate amongst children in Scotland is 24% whilst for OAPs it is just ____%

Answer 36

15%