ID 2007: Difficulty of Access to Owner-Occupation Indicator for England, 2007

An administrative dataset from the UK's Office for National Statistics measuring barriers to housing services. The data provides a Difficulty of Access to Owner-Occupation indicator, likely based on house price to income ratios, for Local Authority Districts in England. It was published by Neighbourhood Statistics as part of the Wider Barriers Subdomain in 2007.

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.
• Support policy evaluation for housing and community services based on the Wider Barriers Subdomain metrics.

Strengths

• Data is georeferenced to Local Authority District (LAD) level for England.
• Time coverage is explicitly defined as the year 2007.
• Source is the authoritative Office for National Statistics via administrative data.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are unknown, limiting suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect temporal bias as it is from a single year (2007).
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Communities and Local Government (CLG), published by Neighbourhood Statistics, Office for National Statistics

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2007

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:31.201409; freshness should be verified.

Geography

England, at Local Authority District (LAD) level