Dataset: Children in Low Income Families
Field: Default Summation - number of children in Relative low income families
Description
The Children in low-income families' local area statistics (CiLIF), provides information on the number and proportion of children living in Relative low income by local area across the United Kingdom.
Statistics on the number of children (by age) in low income families by financial year are published on Stat-Xplore. Figures are calibrated to the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) survey regional estimates of children in low income but provide more granular local area information not available from the HBAI for example by Local Authority, Parliamentary Constituency and Ward.
Relative low-income is defined as a A family in low income before housing costs (BHC) in the reference year. A family must have claimed one or more of Universal Credit, Tax Credits or Housing Benefit at any point in the year to be classed as low income in these statistics.
Quality Statement
These new statistics draw data from a new database "RAPID"(Registration and Population Interaction Database) which provides a single coherent view of citizens' interactions with DWP and HMRC within a tax year for the UK. RAPID provides a basis for analyses of children, the family unit, and gross personal incomes (benefits/tax credits, employment, self-employment, occupational pensions) from which estimates of the number of children in low income families can be derived calibrated to HBAI regional estimates on Absolute and Relative low income definitions.
RAPID is based on 100% extracts of various DWP benefit systems and is supplemented with 100% data extracts from HMRC systems. RAPID collates information on individual activities (and the income generated from those activities) within each tax year, including all benefit, employment and in-work benefit interactions, for example tax credits and housing benefit. Children have been identified from HMRC Child Benefit scans.