Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit Claimants at small area level

Posted by Department for Work and Pensions on 17/02/2011 0 comments

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.

Overview

Tags	benefit housing income
Department	Department for Work and Pensions
Published by	Department for Work and Pensions

Resources (download)

Download	www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/datasetList.do?JSAllowed=true&Function=&%24ph=60&CurrentPageId=60&step=1&CurrentTreeIndex=-1&searchString=&datasetFamilyId=1037&Next.x=10&Next.y=17

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www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/datasetList.do?JSAllowed=true&Function=&%24ph=60&CurrentPageId=60&step=1&CurrentTreeIndex=-1&searchString=&datasetFamilyId=1037&Next.x=10&Next.y=17

Details

Name	housing_benefit-council_tax_benefit_claimants_at_small_area_level
Licence	UK Open Government Licence (OGL)
Geographic coverage	England Wales
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.