Research and analysis

Family Resources Survey Transformation: integrating administrative data into the FRS

Technical report into ensuring that benefit and income information used for the Family Resources Survey is as accurate as possible.

• From: Department for Work and Pensions
• Published: 21 March 2024

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Details

Each year the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spends substantial resources in-house editing the raw Family Resources Survey (FRS) survey data – paying particular attention to ensuring that benefit and income information is as accurate as possible. See the FRS Background Information and Methodology for further details.    

This is because the FRS provides the critical source data for DWP’s policy simulation tools, supporting DWP decisions on policy direction and providing the detailed costs information required by HM Treasury and the Office for Budget Responsibility.

With current processes it takes a full year from the end of field work to get to publication.

How FRS data is used

The FRS provides the source data for:

• Households Below Average Income (HBAI)
• Pensioners’ Incomes Statistics (PI)
• Income-related Benefits: Estimates of Take-up
• Separated families statistics

Published 21 March 2024