UK Welfare Reform Impact Assessment for Cabinet, February 2013

A 2013 Cabinet policy briefing provides an impact assessment of welfare reforms, with data correct as of January 2013 for housing benefits. The document contains new information on characteristics of children affected and arrears rates for council tenants facing changes. Analysis from the Government Digital Service is described as work in progress, as many reforms had not yet been implemented.

Use Cases

• Assessing potential impacts on children based on the characteristics mentioned in the description
• Analyzing financial vulnerability by examining the arrears rates for council tenant groups
• Tracking the implementation timeline of welfare reforms based on the 'work in progress' analysis
• Benchmarking housing benefit data from January 2013 against other time periods

Strengths

• Data is anchored to a specific date: correct as of January 2013 for housing benefit data
• Provides major new information on two specific topics: affected children and tenant arrears
• Originates from an official government source, the Government Digital Service

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
• Last updated 2015-07-29 00:00:00; freshness should be verified
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Policy briefing and impact assessment for Cabinet

Time Range

Data correct as of January 2013

Freshness

Last updated 2015-07-29 00:00:00

Geography

Likely United Kingdom, inferred from the platform (eu_open_data) and government source