ID 2007: Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance Claimants in England

Administrative data on Incapacity Benefit and Severe Disablement Allowance claimants in England for 2007. The dataset is sourced from Communities and Local Government and published by Neighbourhood Statistics. It provides geographic coverage at the Lower Layer Super Output Area level.

Use Cases

• Mapping the geographic distribution of illness-related welfare claimants based on LSOA geography.
• Analyzing correlations between local socio-economic factors and claimant rates based on administrative data.
• Benchmarking local authority performance on employment domain indicators for the year 2007.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official administrative records from Communities and Local Government.
• Geographic coverage is specific to England and granular to the Lower Layer Super Output Area level.
• Temporal coverage is clearly defined for the single year 2007.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias inherent to a single year snapshot from 2007.

Provenance

Source

Communities and Local Government (CLG): ID 2007, published by Neighbourhood Statistics.

Collection Method

Administrative data.

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:35.790518; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA)