Family Resources Survey United Kingdom 2022/23

Results from the Family Resources Survey (FRS) for the financial year 2022 to 2023, providing information on income and circumstances of UK households. The FRS is a continuous household survey which collects information on a representative sample of private households in the United Kingdom.

Detailed information is recorded on each respondent:

• their incomes, from all sources including self employment
• housing tenure
• caring needs and responsibilities
• disability
• expenditure on housing
• education
• pension participation
• childcare, family circumstances and child maintenance
• household food security and food bank usage

The FRS achieved sample this year was just over 25,000 households. This marked a return to the number expected in a normal survey year (‘normal’ being around 20,000 households) following the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in previous years.

During 2022 to 2023, the FRS sought to return to pre-pandemic fieldwork practices. Whilst fieldwork operations during 2022 to 2023 were not identical to those pre-pandemic, they were much closer to it than in the two preceding years, 2020 to 2021 or 2021 to 2022.