The number and percentage of children living in families in receipt of Child Tax Credit (CTC) whose reported income is less than 60 per cent of the median income or in receipt of Income Support (IS) or Income-Based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA).
This data was originally published by HM Revenue and Customs on the gov.uk website
The number children living in low income families is the number of children living in families in receipt of Child Tax Credit (CTC) whose reported income is less than 60 per cent of the median income or in receipt of Income Support (IS) or Income-Based Jobseekers Allowance (JSA).
The percentage of children living in low income families is the number of children living in families in receipt of CTC whose reported income is less than 60 per cent of the median income or in receipt of IS or (Income-Based) JSA, divided by the total number of children in the area (determined by Child Benefit data). The "All" age category includes all dependent children under the age of 20.
For more information and definitions please refer to the technical note.
All of the estimates have been independently rounded to the nearest 5 units. This dataset does not contain any sensitive or personal information.
Further details on the methodology used to produce these statistics is available in the published commentary on the HMRC website
All of the estimates have been independently rounded to the nearest 5 units, so in the case of the Data Zone statistics these are normally 5 individual children. Because of this, aggregating the individual estimates may not sum to the given totals for an area. The child poverty proportions have been provided to 1 decimal place and have been derived from the unrounded counts.
The number of children in Child Benefit families gives the most robust estimate of the number of children in a particular area. However, in some instances, it is possible that there are more children in CTC (<60% median income) or IS/JSA families than there are in Child Benefit. This is due to a time lag between the Child Benefit data and Tax Credits data. Where this has happened we have capped the % of children in low-income families at 100%.
For UK level comparisons, please see the figures published on the HMRC website
DWP and HMRC intend to combine this publication and DWP’s Children in out-ofwork benefit households for joint release in 2019. The combined set of statistics will provide a more coherent picture of living standards for children by local area and reduce volatility in the measure of children in low-income families.
The statistics contained in this publication will be of interest for anyone that is looking for low level geographical estimates of the number children in low-income families. The statistics complement those in the Households Below Average Income (HBAI) report published by the DWP, which contains the headline measure for the number of children in low-income families at a national level. However, differences in the definitions of poverty used in each publication and in the data sources mean there will be differences in the estimates for comparable geographies.
Users should be aware that changes in the tax and benefit systems such as the introduction of Universal Credit (UC) and the High Income Child Benefit charge mean that the statistics no longer cover the entire UK population (see Section 5), although the impacts are negligible in most of the areas contained in this publication.
This dataset is updated annually. DWP and HMRC intend to combine this publication and DWP’s Children in out-of-work benefit households for joint release in 2019. The combined set of statistics will provide a more coherent picture of living standards for children by local area and reduce volatility in the measure of children in low-income families.
This dataset is not subject to routine revisions. The HMRC statistics revisions policy is published on gov.uk.
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