An administrative index measuring child poverty in England for 2007, using data from 2005. The data is published by the Office for National Statistics via Neighbourhood Statistics. It provides a supplementary index of the number of children in households receiving means-tested low-income benefits at the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level.
Use Cases
- Mapping child poverty hotspots based on the LSOA-level geographic coverage.
- Analyzing correlations between income deprivation and other social indices based on the administrative data source.
- Tracking changes in child poverty over time based on the 2007 time coverage.
- Informing local resource allocation for children's services based on the means-tested benefit data.
Strengths
- Geographic coverage is specific to England.
- Time coverage is explicitly defined as 2007 (using 2005 data).
- Data is sourced from official administrative records via the Office for National Statistics.
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 2005/2007 period.
Provenance
- Source
- Communities and Local Government (CLG): ID 2007, published by Neighbourhood Statistics.
- Collection Method
- Administrative data (with statistical transformations applied).
- Time Range
- 2007 (using 2005 data).
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:38.170234; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- England, at Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) level.