Dataset: Housing Benefit claimants
Field: Westminster Parliamentary Constituencies
Description
Parliamentary constituency 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 parliamentary constituency and local authority data.
Images of Questions
Classification
A full list of codes and names relating to local authority areas can be obtained from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) website: http://www.ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/geography/products/names--codes-and-look-ups/names-and-codes-listings/names-and-codes-for-administrative-geography/index.html
We classify Unknown / Missing as ZZXXXXXXX
Total number of categories: 650
Quality Statement
Parliamentary constituency is 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, Parliamentary constituency 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).