Is children’s free school meal ‘eligibility’ a good proxy for family income?

By Graham Hobbs, A. Vignoles. 2010

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Subfields: Education, Sociology and Political Science

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In Education

1. Anne West
2. Rebecca Allen
3. Stephen Gorard
4. J. Coldron

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1. Anne West
2. Rebecca Allen
3. Stephen Gorard
4. J. Coldron

Citations in the corpus

• Who Is Eligible for Free School Meals? Characterising Free School Meals as a Measure of Disadvantage in England. (2012, background): “This could well be the result of the tightening up on how eligibility is now officially recorded, as suggested by Hobbs and Vignoles (2010).”
• The effect of changes in published secondary school admissions on pupil composition (2012, methodology): “In this study we analyse changes in the FSM eligibility proportion, recognising the limitations of this as a proxy for low income (Hobbs and Vignoles 2010 ).”