Dataset: Housing Benefit claimants
Field: Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs)
Description
Travel to Work Area was developed by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) working with Newcastle University to define a set of Travel to Work Areas (TTWAs) for the whole of the UK. See
Travel to Work Area is based on the address of the HB claimant.
It is possible for the claimant to reside in a different LA to the one administering their HB claim.
Therefore it may not always be possible to make direct comparisons between geographies based on administering LA and those based on residence of the claimant.
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Classification
More information on Travel to Work Areas, and a full list of codes and names relating to these areas can be obtained from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/beginner-s-guide/other/travel-to-work-areas/index.html
We classify Unknown / Missing as ZZXXXXXXX
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Quality Statement
TTWAs are derived from the postcode of the claimant’s address.
Postcode is present for over 99 per cent of claimants but, for some claimants, the postcodes are incomplete or missing. To improve the quality of postcode information, the claimant’s address is processed through address cleansing software.
For postcodes that are still incomplete after address cleansing, TTWA has been assigned where possible using postcode district.
It is possible that errors can occur in the recording of address / postcode (both on form and inputting onto computer system within the local authority processing the claim).