Modernisation of DWP Statistics

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• Modernisation of DWP Statistics

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Customer groups

• DWP Ministers and the officials that work closely
  with them
• DWP Analysts and policy officials
• DWP Corporate Services
• DWP Delivery Businesses
• Local Authorities and other Government
  Departments
• Other external users, including Parliament, the
  Office for National Statistics, researchers,
  academics and the public

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Modernisation of DWP Statistics

• Internet dissemination
• Work Pensions Longitudinal Study data on
  benefits, New Deals etc, employment - flows
• Consultation
• Tabulation Tool
• Geographic detail

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Work Pensions Longitudinal Study

• Employment Act 2002 allowed DWP use of IR data
• Evaluation of Jobcentre Plus
• Pensioner family units
• Fraud
• Targeting/marketing
• Safeguard access rights

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Methodological issues

• QA of 5 v 100
• Papers will explain differences when first
  results issued
• Retrospection (late notifications on 100)
• Slightly less timely
• Rounding

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Summary of changes

• Cessation of current NS publications
• Quarterly press release with high-level
  statistics
• WPLS-sourced
• Tabulation Tool
• High-level early estimates
• Paper service where necessary

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Consultation

• June/July 2004
• Government/parliament, regional bodies,
  academics, statistics committees, user groups,
  voluntary sector
• 9 respondents
• Favourable reaction!

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Governance

• Steering Group includes an LA, ONS, IR
• Project Board - internal

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Timetable

• Consultation Summer 2004
• QA and development 2004/5
• Summer 2005 analysis paper explains changes
  first statistics from WPLS
• October Tabulation Tool uses WPLS for benefit
  statistics (scheme employment statistics
  experimental) and headline statistics based on
  WPLS
• Further developments flows, UK data, etc

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By end of 2005, scrap

• Most Excel tables
• Most press notices
• Reliance on 5 sample data
• Most of existing web structure

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Outstanding work

• Quality assurance
• Finalise rounding scheme
• Finalise and populate Tabulation Tool
• Maintain Nomis
• Documentation help for website
• Documentation help for internal users
• Presentation of key trends

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Geographic data

• Excel tables by LA and ward already available.
• GIS detail rolling out to Jobcentre Plus and
  Pensions Service cant share everything.
• SVG tool coming soon.

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CLAIMANTS OF INCAPACITY BENEFITS AS A PERCENTAGE
OF WORKING AGE POPULATION NEWCASTLE WARDS
AUGUST 2004
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CLAIMANTS OF INCAPACITY BENEFITS AS A PERCENTAGE
OF WORKING AGE POPULATION NEWCASTLE LSOAs
AUGUST 2004
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CLAIMANTS OF INCAPACITY BENEFITS AS PERCENTAGE OF
WORKING AGE POPULATION NEWCASTLE AUGUST 2004
TOP TWO DECILES OF OUTPUT AREAS
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CLAIMANTS OF INCAPACITY BENEFITS ZOOM INTO
BYKER / MONKCHESTER / WALKER WARDS
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CLAIMANTS OF INCAPACITY BENEFITS SELECTION OF
AREA FOR WORKING NEIGHBOURHOOD PILOT