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Number of children aged 0-4 living in Jobseeker's Allowance claimant households
(5592)
Metric type
- Help text
- This is the number of children aged 0-4 living in households where at least one parent or guardian claimed Jobseeker's Allowance at 31st May each year.
Jobseeker?s Allowance (JSA) was introduced on 7 October 1996. It replaced Unemployment Benefit and Income Support for unemployed people and brought them together in a unified benefit with two routes of entry. It can be claimed by people who
are available for and actively seeking employment, including those in remunerative work for less than 16 hours a week on average, and by people on a government approved training scheme.
These statistics have been derived by matching DWP out-of-work benefit data with HMRC Child Benefit data. Children are matched through the Child Benefit claimant or partner records to DWP benefit claimants.
In 2012, the unavailability of a Child Benefit scan led to a slight change in methodology to enable production of the 2012 tables. DWP do not expect this to have an impact on outputs, however, please be aware of this when making time-series comparisons.
Data are rounded to the nearest ten for larger geographical areas. For smaller geographies such as Ward and Lower Layer Super Output Area, figures are independently rounded to five. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
- Modified
- 11 Nov 2020
- Data last updated
- 23 Jun 2022
- Short label
- Number of children aged 0-4 in JSA benefit households
- Status
- Discontinued
- Output precision
- 0
- Polarity
- not applicable
- Measure
- Children living in JSA claimant households
- Dataset
- Number of Children living in Jobseeker's Allowance Claimant Households
- Source
- Department for Work and Pensions
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