ID 2004 is a socioeconomic indicator measuring barriers to housing, specifically the difficulty of accessing owner-occupation based on house prices relative to incomes. The dataset, published by Neighbourhood Statistics and sourced from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, covers Local Authority Districts in England for the years 2002 and 2004. It is part of the Wider Barriers Subdomain and consists of administrative data with statistical transformations applied.
Use Cases
- Analyze regional housing affordability disparities based on the house-price-to-income indicator.
- Model socioeconomic barriers to home ownership across Local Authority Districts.
- Track changes in access to owner-occupation between 2002 and 2004.
- Support policy evaluation for housing and services subdomains.
Strengths
- Data covers two distinct time points (2002 and 2004), allowing for temporal comparison.
- Geographic coverage is specific to Local Authority Districts across England.
- Source is an official government body (Office of the Deputy Prime Minister).
- License is clearly stated as OGL-UK-3.0.
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.
- Time coverage is limited to two years from the early 2000s.
Provenance
- Source
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM), published by Neighbourhood Statistics, organization: Office for National Statistics.
- Collection Method
- Administrative data with statistical transformations applied.
- Time Range
- 2002, 2004
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:51.207093; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Local Authority District (LAD), England