ID 2004 Combined Income Indicator for England at LSOA Level, 2001-2003

England's combined income indicator for the Indices of Deprivation 2004, drawn from administrative sources. The dataset, developed by the University of Oxford for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, covers the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) geography for the financial years 2001/02 and 2002/03. It includes data on claimants of Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance, tax credits, and asylum seekers.

Use Cases

• Modeling socioeconomic deprivation based on combined administrative income indicators.
• Analyzing geographic patterns of welfare benefit and tax credit claimants at the LSOA level.
• Comparing income-related data across the 2001/02 and 2002/03 time periods.
• Benchmarking local area income conditions against the original Indices of Deprivation 2004 framework.

Strengths

• Geographic granularity is provided at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level.
• Time coverage includes two specific financial years: 2001/02 and 2002/03.
• Data is derived from multiple authoritative administrative sources, including welfare and tax systems.
• License is clearly stated as OGL-UK-3.0, facilitating open use.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to the 2001-2003 period and the specific administrative sources used.

Provenance

Source

Communities and Local Government (CLG), published by Neighbourhood Statistics.

Collection Method

Administrative data aggregated from sources relating to Income Support, Jobseekers Allowance, Working Tax Credit, Disabled Person's Tax Credit, and asylum seekers.

Time Range

2001/02, 2002/03

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:25.768901; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, at Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level.