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Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2026

9 Jul 2026 9:30 am - 4:30 pm
Friends House London (Hybrid)
Conferences
Family finance

Are you interested in research on family finances? Do you want to know the latest developments in family finance data from UK social surveys?

Join us for the Family Finance Surveys User Conference 2026.

This free annual conference is organised by the UK Data Service in collaboration with the Department for Work and Pensions and the Office for National Statistics.

The conference will be held in person at Friends House, London, on Thursday 9 July 2026, with an option to attend online.

This year’s programme includes:

  • Updates from DWP, including the Family Resources Survey and Households Below Average Income.
  • ONS developments on the Wealth and Assets Survey and the Living Costs and Food Survey.
  • New research on poverty, wealth measurement and financial behaviour.
  • Presentations on new approaches to measuring living standards and household costs, drawing on survey, administrative and financial data.

The conference will conclude with a chaired session led by James Smith (Resolution Foundation), bringing together perspectives on how data and methods shape our understanding of the cost of living.

View the programme under 'Event resources' below.

Follow the event on Bluesky: #UKDSFamilyFinance2026

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Recordings of UK Data Service events are made available on our YouTube channel and, together with the slides, on our past events pages soon after the event has taken place.

Event resources

Programme (PDF)

Abstracts (PDF)

Presentation slides:

Session 1: Income data and poverty measurement

DWP: Developments in household income data, Updates on Family Resources Survey (FRS), Households Below Average Income, Income Dynamics, and Pensioners’ Incomes  (PDF)

Severe poverty and destitution in the UK: estimating local incidence and trends through secondary indicators calibrated on household surveys (PDF)

Session 2: Wealth and financial behaviour

ONS update: Wealth and Assets Survey (WAS) (PDF)

Who is wealthy in Great Britain? New approaches to the measurement of pension wealth (PDF)

Rethinking Financial Behaviour – Rationality and Resistance in the Financialization of Everyday Life (PDF)

Session 3: Household finances and the cost of living

Surveys Count – the stories behind the statistics (PDF)

ONS updates on Household income and expenditure, Developments in the Living Costs and Food Survey (LCFS) and household income and expenditure analysis (PDF)

Session 4: New approaches to measuring living standards and household costs

Small area consumption estimates combining survey and financial footprints data (PDF)

Analysis of household digital costs using current ONS living costs and food (LCF) survey data (2023-24)(PDF)

Measuring mortgage costs (PDF)