In our research, families in
social rented accommodation were not more likely than owner occupiers to move house.
In the 1980s nearly three quarters of non home - owners lived in
social rented accommodation.
Not exact matches
They did not vary by
social class, but were greater in those living in
rented council
accommodation and in more crowded households.
The likelihood ratio interaction test was used to determine whether the effect of infant feeding varied according to
social class (I — IIInm versus IIIm — V / other), crowding (< 0.7 versus ⩾ 0.7 total persons in house / total rooms),
accommodation type (
rented council versus not), and Jarman (< 1.5 versus ⩾ 1.5, where 1.5 was the median value).
In the unadjusted analysis, diarrhoeal disease was significantly associated with lower
social class, living in
rented council
accommodation, not having access to a food mixer, having contact with a person with diarrhoea / vomiting within or outside the household, formula feeding, and, in infants not being breast fed, not using chemicals / steam to sterilise bottles (table 1).
Those governments have kept the minimum wage below a living wage, allowed private
social care companies to pay less than even the inadequate minimum wage, done almost nothing to enforce the quality of private rental
accommodation and nothing to prevent gouging
rents.
Elsewhere, devolution is beginning to have an effect on housing policy both in relation to
social and private
rented accommodation.
We have seen in the previous chapter that persistently poor children were also likely to live in families that were workless, of low
social class, living in
rented accommodation and multiply deprived areas.
Previous attendance was not significantly associated with
social class (17.9 % non-manual v 19.5 % manual),
accommodation type (17.3 % owner occupiers v 18.5 %
rented accommodation), or ethnicity (18.5 % white v 15.2 % non-white).