Dataset: People on Universal Credit
Field: Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies
Description
Parliamentary constituency is based on the address of the claimant.
It is possible for the claimant to reside in a different Local Authority to the one administering their claim.
Therefore, it may not always be possible to make direct comparisons between parliamentary constituency and Local Authority data.
Classification
A full list of codes and names relating to Westminster Parliamentary Constituency areas can be obtained from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website.
We classify Unknown / Missing as ZZXXXXXXX
Total number of categories (excluding Unknown / Missing):
By Country: 3
By Region: 11
By Westminster Parliamentary Constituency: 632
Quality Statement
Parliamentary constituency is derived from the claimant's postcode. This postcode relates to a claimant's place of residence and not the Jobcentre Plus office administering the claim.
In a very small proportion of cases, where postcode is missing, a postcode is randomly assigned and the parliamentary constituency is determined from that postcode. There are a very small number of records that are still recorded as unknown because the postcode is invalid.