Child Tax Credit Recipients: Lone Parents in Great Britain, 2005-2006

Great Britain administrative data on lone parents receiving Child Tax Credit (CTC), a means-tested benefit for families with children or qualifying young people in education. The dataset is sourced from HM Customs and Revenue and published by the Office for National Statistics. It covers the years 2005 and 2006.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the geographic distribution of welfare support based on Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) and Local Authority District geographies.
• Studying the relationship between family income and benefit entitlement as described in the dataset's purpose.
• Tracking changes in lone-parent CTC recipients over the two-year time coverage from 2005 to 2006.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official administrative records from HM Customs and Revenue, suggesting high accuracy for its intended purpose.
• Geographic coverage includes multiple levels of detail, from national down to Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA).
• Time coverage is explicitly stated for two specific years: 2005 and 2006.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2005-2006 period and administrative source.

Provenance

Source

HM Customs and Revenue

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2005, 2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:18.760663; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain