Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support in Leicester, 2021 Snapshot

Leicester City Council's Housing Benefit and Council Tax Support dataset provides a snapshot of social support provision as of 1st April 2021. The data is published as an annual snapshot by the Government Digital Service. It is available in CSV and JSON formats.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the distribution of housing benefit support based on the annual administrative snapshot.
• Modeling local government expenditure on council tax support programs.
• Benchmarking Leicester's social support provision against other local authorities.

Strengths

• Data is provided by an official government source, the Government Digital Service.
• The dataset offers a specific temporal snapshot (1st April 2021).

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Administrative data snapshot from Leicester City Council.

Time Range

Snapshot as of 1st April 2021.

Freshness

Annual snapshot; last update date is unknown.

Geography

Leicester, United Kingdom.