UK Income Support Claimants Aggregated at 1992 Ward Level

Aggregated data from scans of Income Support records. The dataset is provided by OpenDataNI under the OGL-UK-3.0 license and was last updated on 2026-07-08.

Use Cases

• Analyze geographic disparities in welfare claims based on the 1992 ward-level aggregation.
• Model historical trends in social support uptake based on administrative scan data.
• Study the relationship between local administrative boundaries and claimant counts.

Strengths

• Data is aggregated at a specific administrative geography (1992 ward level).
• Dataset has a clear license (OGL-UK-3.0) and a known source organization (OpenDataNI).
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-07-08 13:33:19.169689).

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

OpenDataNI

Collection Method

Aggregated from scans of Income Support data.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:19.169689; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom, aggregated at 1992 ward level.