Children in low income families: local area statistics 2014 to 2019
Official experimental statistics on the number of children living in low income families.
Applies to England, Scotland and Wales
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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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Updates to this page
Published 26 March 2020Last updated 30 June 2020 + show all updates
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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.
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First published.