Guidance

Child Maintenance Service statistics: background information and methodology

This document provides information on the uses and users of the Child Maintenance Service statistics.

From:
Department for Work and Pensions
Published
30 August 2017
Last updated
26 March 2024 — See all updates

Documents

Child Maintenance Service statistics: background information and methodology

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-653-6

HTML

Details

This document provides an explanation of the Child Maintenance Service statistics, including their aims and the methodology used to compile the data used in the statistics.

Published 30 August 2017
Last updated 26 March 2024 + show all updates

  1. Revised background note - updated the information about Compliance in the Definitions and terminology section. The latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics has been published today (26 March 2024).

  2. Revised background note — the information in the section about the status of the statistics has been updated, and minor style changes have been made throughout the document. The latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics has been published today (26 September 2023).

  3. Revised background note - minor style changes and revisions have been made throughout the document. A new section called ‘June 2023 publication (data to March 2023)’ has been added. This has information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics.

  4. The background note has been given a new ISBN reference number. No other changes to the information have been made. The latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics has been published today (28 March 2023).

  5. The background note has been given a new ISBN reference number. No other changes to the information have been made. The latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics has been published today (13 December 2022).

  6. Revised background note - includes a new section called 'December 2021 publication (data to September 2021'. This has information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics. The latest statistics have been published today, 14 December 2021.

  7. Revised background note - includes a new section called 'September 2021 publication (data to June 2021)'. This has information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics (published today, 28 September 2021).

  8. Revised background note — includes a new section called 'June 2021 publication (data to March 2021)'. This has information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics (published today, 29 June 2021).

  9. Revised background note — includes a new section called 'March 2021 publication (data to December 2020)'. This has information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics (published today, 24 March 2021).

  10. Revised background note - includes a new section called 'December 2020 publication (data to September 2020)'. This has information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics (also published today, 16 December 2020).

  11. Revised background note - updated with information about the latest release of statistics (September 2020 publication with data to June 2020). These statistics have also been published today, 30 September 2020.

  12. Revised background note - includes information about the data in the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics (also published today, 24 June 2020).

  13. Published a revised background information and methodology document, now dated March 2020. Updated the log detailing changes to the statistics each quarter, to reflect changes made for the latest release of statistics, also published today (25 March 2020).

  14. Added information about methodological changes made for the December 2019 publication in the section on 'Corrections to methodology'.

  15. Revised document, now dated September 2019: updated the definitions in the document to ensure they align with the definitions in the release of statistics, included a section to explain revisions and methodological corrections, and revised the section about data sources to reflect the current assessment of their quality.

  16. Published a revised background information and methodology document, now dated June 2019. This has been revised to support the latest release of the Child Maintenance Service statistics.

  17. Published revised document: moved ‘Data Quality and Sources’, originally a subsection in the ‘Purpose of the Statistics’ section, to be its own section; added information about the estimates used in place of some December 2018 figures to the new ‘Data Quality and Sources’ section; updated the ‘Definitions and Terminology’ sub-section to reflect recent changes to the publication.

  18. Published a revised background information and methodology document, now dated February 2018. This has been revised to support the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics.

  19. Published revised background information and methodology document, dated 29 November 2017. Numerous changes throughout.

  20. First published.

Related content