Average burial and cremation costs for each location were sourced from the Royal
London Funeral Costs Index
The fees and send-off costs were sourced from the
SunLife Cost of Dying Report
. The national average was used across the board as no regional breakdown in these
costs were available.
The Average Funeral Cost for each location is thus the average of the burial and
cremation costs plus the fees and send-off cost.
Average weekly expenditure by region
and
median gross weekly pay by local authority
were sourced from the Office of National Statistics.
Average Disposable Income is calculated as the difference between the median weekly pay
and average weekly expenditure.
The Average Funeral Cost is divided by the Average Disposable Income to find the number
of weeks it would take the average person to save for the funeral. (If all their
disposable income was saved over this time period)