Create your Own Statistics
Stat-Xplore
Stat-Xplore provides a guided way to explore DWP benefit data, ask different questions, and see the results in an interactive chart. Use Stat-Xplore to download the statistics behind the visualisation or share visualisations via social networking tools or through a more traditional approach of downloading a visualisation into a common file format.
This visualisation tool, relating to data on Housing Benefit claimants, is the first phase of Stat-Xplore. In the near future, Stat-Xplore will include the ability of users to create their own bespoke tabulations and will include data on a wider set of DWP benefits.
We would welcome views on Stat-Xplore from users. If you would like to provide us with feedback e-mail Stats Consultation
Stat-Xplore for Housing Benefit claimants, region and local authority breakdown
Stat-Xplore for Housing Benefit claimants, Parliamentary constituency breakdown
The DWPs Tabulation Tool.
The Tabulation Tool allows you to download National Statistics to your requirements. This facility is available for National Statistics on:
- DWP Benefit Caseloads
- DWP Benefit on and off flows
- Employment Programmes
- National Insurance Contributions & Qualifying Years and Second Tier Pension Provision (taken from the Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) or L2)
- National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals entering the UK
Some time series tables which also use a subset, bring up a different table from that selected by the user. In this instance, the figures and titles within the displayed table are correct, but relate to the subset displayed in the title, rather than the subset selected. For example, the user selects a subset table for REGION "North East" but the resulting table contains the title "Region = Unknown". In this case the table is correctly showing numbers for the "Unknown" region.
Benefit Caseloads:
There are two main sources of benefit caseload numbers:
- The best statistics to use are sourced from the Work and Pensions Longitudinal Study (WPLS). These data are based on 100% of claimants and cover information such as age and gender of claimant, duration of their spell on benefit and geographical locations of claimants.
- If you require more detailed breakdowns specific to one benefit (for example type of JSA in payment) you may need to rely on our 5% sample data which has more detail but less comprehensive coverage.
Please use the WPLS data first, and only access the samples if the breakdowns that you need are not available on the WPLS. DWP recommends that, where the detail is only available on the 5% sample data, the proportions derived should be applied to the overall 100% total for the benefit. The Guide to Sources document lists which information is available from each data source and provides more detail.
For more information on the two sources, download this Guide to Sources (76KB) 
For information on the differences between DWP JSA statistics and ONS Claimant Count statistics, download this Information on Differences (104KB)
General information on benefit and employment programme statistics can be found within the Statistical Summary. This includes important contextual information including notification of future changes to the series.
Click here for Benefit Caseload National Statistics (WPLS) data (Now includes statistics on Employment and Support Allowance)
Click here for Neighbourhood Statistics Data: Ward and Super Output Area/Data Zone.
Click here for Census Output Area numbers for England and Wales.
Click here if the WPLS data does not hold the detail you need: Sample data, or
Click here for JSA Sanction & Disallowance Decision Stats (This Tabulation Tool contains JSA sanctions and disallowances up to and including 21 October 2012. After this date, new regulations introduced a regime of fixed period sanctions, which replaced the existing sanction rules and moved claimants closer to the sanction regime planned for Universal Credit in 2013.)
Benefit Flows Data:
A full time-series of flows figures is now available from the links below. These Tabulation Tools contain a flows time-series from August 1999 to August 2010 and will be updated each quarter. The usual "one-click" table regarding Pension Credit is also available.
Click here for On Flows data (excludes JSA)
Click here for Off Flows data (excludes JSA)
Click here to view ONS JSA Claimant Count Flows data
Employment Programmes:
Click here for statistics regarding the Work Programme.
Click here for statistics regarding legacy Employment Programmes and for information on changing employment programme policy.
General information on benefit and employment programme statistics can be found within the Statistical Summary. This includes important contextual information including notification of future changes to the series.
Information Directorate have withdrawn the Vacancy Tabulation Tool from the DWP website. Users can access National Statistics on vacancies notified to Jobcentre Plus via the NOMIS site.
National Insurance Contributions & Qualifying Years and Second Tier Pension Provision:
This Tabulation Tool provides the latest estimates taken from the Lifetime Labour Market Database (L2) on people who have paid National Insurance contributions since 1978/79 and information on membership of contracted out pension schemes and SERPS/S2P membership since the introduction of contracted out schemes in 1978/79.
Click here for National Insurance Contributions & Qualifying Years and Second Tier Pension Provision
National Insurance Number Allocations to Adult Overseas Nationals entering the UK:
Statistics are based on adult overseas nationals registering for a National Insurance number for the purposes of work, benefits or tax credits.
