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The Department for Work and Pensions have published Employment Support Allowance (ESA) benefit claimant records for November 2008 and February 2009 at Local Authority District level. As of 27th of October 2008, Employment Support Allowance replaced Incapacity Benefit as the primary benefit for those who are out of work as a result of poor health [...]

Data for a range of key DWP benefit datasets has been updated for Februrary 2009. These updates have been released on Nomis and DWP. The following indicators are included:

Income Support
Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance
Jobseekers Allowance
Attendance Allowance
Disability Living Allowance
Pension Credit
State Pension
Carers Allowance

The Association of Public Health Authorities (APHO) have provided excel downloads of each of the indicators in their Health Profiles. These indicators cover measures of poor health as well as wider determinants of health. The following health indicators have been added to data4nr (available down to LAD level).

Breast feeding initiation (New, Available for 2007/08)

Carbon emissions [...]

Place Survey 2008

Key Findings from the Place Survey 2008 have been published on Communities and Local Government (CLG). The Place Survey provides information on people’s perceptions of their local area and the local services they receive. The survey collects information on 18 of the National Indicator Set indicators for local government, used to measure local [...]

The following Analytical Tools are now signposted to on Data4nr

Change over Time Analysis (CoTA) Viewer - a visual tool developed by Neighbourhood Statistics which assists the analysis of change over time for small areas. The tool enables users to benchmark change in a local area (LSOA, LA etc.) against a set of comparators in order [...]

We’re happy to announce that you can now get dataset information from Data4nr.net in both CSV and Microsoft Excel formats.

CSV, Excel and XML downloads are currently available for lists of datasets, including lists for particular themes, filters, and search terms. XML downloads are, as before, available for individual datasets. All three formats can be downloaded using direct URLs, making it easy to fetch these lists automatically, either for direct viewing, or for integration into other applications.

Data for a range of key DWP benefit datasets has been updated for November 2008. These updates have been released on Nomis and DWP. The following indicators are included

Income Support

Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance

Jobseekers Allowance

Attendance Allowance

Disability Living Allowance

Pension Credit

State Pension

Carers Allowance

However, updated Working Age Client Group data for November 2008 has not been published at present.

Neighbourhood Statistics have released data at LSOA and Local Authority District level on recipients of Tax Credits. The Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit schemes were launched in 2003 to give financial support to families with children, and working people on low incomes. These data can help to identify areas with significant levels of [...]

This is a joint Defra and DECC public consultation on draft guidance for how UK organisations should measure and report their greenhouse gas emissions required by the Climate Change Act. The deadline for consultation responses is 7 August 2009. The final guidance will be published by 1 October 2009 following consultation. Click here for more [...]