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Child Support Agency quarterly summary statistics: policy and methodology pre-December 2013

Detailed policy and methodology documents relating to the Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics published prior to December 2013.

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Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics metadata

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DWP complies with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics and supporting principles published by the UK Statistics Authority.

These documents provide detailed policy and methodology relating to CSA Quarterly Summary of Statistics published prior to December 2013.

Different detailed policy and methodology documents are available for statistics published after December 2013.

Consultation on proposed changes to the Child Support Agency quarterly summary of statistics

We published a consultation on the proposed move to a new methodology. This closed on the 9 July 2013 and a response was published on 19 September 2013.

An earlier consultation was published in 2009 which aimed to review the accessibility and focus of the data, with the aim to aid consideration of how data could be better presented. This is available on the National Archive.

Published 20 February 2013
Last updated 26 February 2014 + show all updates
  1. New methodology and policy documents published for statistics published after December 2013 - link added to new page.

  2. The strategy for the publication of information about the 2012 scheme administered by the Child Maintenance Service has been added to the page.

  3. First published.