Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit Claimants at small area level

Overview

Housing Benefit can be claimed by a person if they are liable to pay rent and if they are on a low income. Council Tax Benefit is designed to help people on low-income to pay their Council Tax. The data are broken down by gender, age and marital status.

Source: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Publisher: Neighbourhood Statistics

Geographies: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA), Local Authority District (LAD), County/Unitary Authority, Government Office Region (GOR), National

Geographic coverage: England and Wales

Time coverage: 2005

Type of data: Administrative data

Notes: The two benefits are not listed separately in this dataset.

Update frequency: Annually
Import source: DATA4NR-data4nr-export-13-01-2010.csv
External reference: DATA4NR-678
National statistic: no
Geographic coverage: 101000: England, Wales
Update frequency: Annually
Temporal coverage from: 2005
Precision: All counts have been adjusted using a random rounding method to avoid the disclosure of any personal information. Any low counts have been suppressed using the symbol x and consequently sums of counts may not equal the totals shown.
Source: Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)
Department: Department for Work and Pensions
Temporal coverage to: 2005