Working Age Client Group (WACG)

The information in this dataset refers to numbers of Working Age Benefit Claimants and is derived from a 100% data source; the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). The dataset provides counts of benefit claimants categorised by their statistical group (their main reason for interacting with the benefit system), gender and age.

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)

Nomis data (most up to date)
https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/query/construct/summary.asp?
mode=construct&version=0&dataset=105

DWP at LSOA and ward level
http://83.244.183.180/NESS/WACG/wacg.htm

Neighbourhood Statistics Data at LSOA and LAD level
http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/disseminatio
n/datasetList.do;jsessionid=ac1f930bce62b4f834947544cac
83d1f33e0691ef1a?JSAllowed=true&ph=60&CurrentPageId=60&
step=1&datasetFamilyId=1204&Next.x=1&Next.y=1&nsjs=true
&nsck=true&nssvg=true&nswid=789

Great Britain

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

2011

1999 to 2011

Quarterly

Administrative data

• Rounded to the nearest 5 persons.
• As no data are held for Disability Living Allowance before May 2002, there is a discontinuity in the series at that point. The time series for Job Seeker, Incapacity Benefits, Lone Parent, Carer and Other on Income Related Benefit statistical groups are directly comparable back to August 1999.

The main advantage of this dataset is that the double counting of claimants of multiple benefits has been removed so that users will get a more accurate picture of benefit claiming and worklessness at a small area level.

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