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Deprivation and low income

Housing Benefit/Council Tax Benefit Claimants at small area level

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Description

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.

Geographic coverage

England and Wales

Geographic units

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

Time coverage (most recent)

2005

Time coverage

2005

Update frequency

Annually

Source

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Guidelines

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Publisher

Neighbourhood Statistics

URL

URL notes

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Notes

The two benefits are not listed separately in this dataset.

Data suppression

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.

Time series consistency

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Reliability

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Component variables

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