Database: Households on Universal Credit
Field: Number of Children Aged 11 to 15
Description
Measures the number of people declared as living in the household who are aged 11 to 15, whose details have been verified by DWP. Age is derived from the date of birth taken from the most recent declaration made and calculated at the end of the relevant assessment period.
Classification
Applicable to: All Households
The Number of Children Aged 11 to 15 field can take the following values:
Total number of categories: 6
Quality Statement
In a very small proportion of cases, information on children in the household is missing or unknown in the data available to statisticians for the reporting month in which the data is counted.
The number of children may not be equal to the number of dependent children in the household who are eligible for child element for various reasons. This includes children over the age of 16 in non-advanced full-time education, looked-after children and, other young people living in multigenerational households whose parents are not the claimant. Those affected by the policy to provide support for a maximum of two children may also have a larger number of children compared to the number of dependent children in their household.
It is currently not possible within the data available to statisticians to reliably identify if a declared child is a dependant or a child of the claimant.