UK Tax Credit Claimants by Family and Work Status, 2005-2006

HM Revenue and Customs administrative data provides counts and percentages of families receiving Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit in Great Britain. The dataset includes the number of children and adults in claimant families, entitlement levels, and distinguishes between in-work and out-of-work families. Office for National Statistics published this data for geographies from LSOA to national level for the years 2005 and 2006.

Use Cases

• Analyze regional disparities in tax credit uptake based on geographic breakdowns to LSOA level.
• Model the relationship between family composition and benefit entitlement based on counts of children and adults.
• Study the impact of formal childcare support on working families based on the proportion benefiting from childcare costs.
• Compare welfare dependency trends between in-work and out-of-work families based on the work status distinction.

Strengths

• Data is sourced from authoritative administrative records from HM Revenue and Customs.
• Provides geographic breakdowns at five levels, from Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) to National.
• Covers two distinct years, 2005 and 2006, allowing for temporal comparison.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is limited to 2005 and 2006, which may not reflect current welfare policies or economic conditions.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.

Provenance

Source

HM Revenue and Customs

Collection Method

Administrative data

Time Range

2005, 2006

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:23.578699; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain