This letter from the UK Statistics Authority confirms the DWP FRS publication retained National Statistics accreditation following assessment.

The assessment of the DWP FRS based National Statistics of compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics by the UK Statistics Authority.

This report presents the data recorded on the non-response form in the 2008-2009 survey year. For all non-contacts and refusal households to the FRS, observational data is collected about their characteristics and housing.

This report provides an investigation into evaluating approaches to linking Family Resources Survey (FRS) data with Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) administrative data.

This report outlines the process for the production of the Family Resources Survey dataset.

This note describes several data sources that provide information on earnings data, at an individual, family and household level, and how the Family Resources Survey (FRS) complements other sources. It also describes how median net earned income for working families was calculated for the 2010 Spending Review.

This report presents the data recorded on the non-response form in the 2005-2006 survey year. For all non-contacts and refusal households to the FRS, observational data is collected about their characteristics and housing.

This report presents the data recorded on the non-response form in the 2004-2005 survey year. For all non-contacts and refusal households to the FRS, observational data is collected about their characteristics and housing.

This report presents the data recorded on the non-response form in the 2003-2004 survey year. For all non-contacts and refusal households to the FRS, observational data is collected about their characteristics and housing.

This report presents the data recorded on the non-response form in the 2002-2003 survey year. For all non-contacts and refusal households to the FRS, observational data is collected about their characteristics and housing.

This report presents information on the characteristics of non-respondents to the Family Resources Survey (FRS) using linked data from the 2001 Census and the FRS sample from April to June 2001.

This is a previously unpublished paper.

Department for Work and Pensions statisticians have been reviewing the grossing methodology for the DWP Family Resources Survey (FRS).

A new regime has been devised, which improves the accuracy of regional-level counts drawn from the FRS.

This paper describes the changes being made to the Family Resources Survey (FRS) grossing regime, and compares the results of the old and new regimes for key statistics based on the FRS.

Details of the new and old regimes are provided, together with an outline of the investigations undertaken that led to the new regime. This is followed by analysis of the effects of the changes in the regime on key statistics.

DWP and ONS have jointly investigated the reasons for the Family Resources Survey (FRS) consistently giving higher estimates, than does the Labour Force Survey (LFS), of the proportion of children in workless households.

This proportion is the subject of a DWP PSA target and is also a key driver in relation to the DWP/HMT joint PSA target to reduce child poverty by 25% between 1998 and 2004. LFS is used to monitor the former, FRS the latter.

The recommendations of this report have been accepted by DWP and ONS.