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Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2019

Official experimental statistics on the number of children living in low income families.

Updates to this page

From:
Department for Work and Pensions and HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
26 March 2020
Last updated:
30 June 2020
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  1. Updated ODS data tables - revised version includes 2 additional Parliamentary Constituency data tables and reflects geography boundary changes. Explanatory notes are included in the tables.

  2. First published.

Applies to England, Scotland and Wales

Documents

Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014/15 to 2018/19

Ref: ISBN 978-1-78659-216-3

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Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014/15 to 2018/19

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Details

The latest release of these statistics can be found in the Children in low income families: local area statistics collection.

This is the first release of these statistics which have replaced DWP’s Children in out-of-work benefit households and HMRC’s Personal Tax Credits: Children in low income families local measure publications.

For both Relative and Absolute measures, before housing costs, these annual statistics include counts of children by:

  • geography, including by:
    • local authority
    • Westminster parliamentary constituency
    • Ward
    • Middle Super Output Area
  • year (2014/15 to 2018/19)
  • age of child
  • gender of child
  • family type
  • work status of the family

More detailed breakdowns of the statistics can be found on Stat-Xplore.

For more information, read the background information and methodology.

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