Guidance

Child Maintenance Service statistics: background information and methodology

This document provides information on the uses and users of the Child Maintenance Service experimental statistics.

Published 30 August 2017
Last updated 27 February 2018 — see all updates
From:
Department for Work and Pensions

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Child Maintenance Service statistics: background information and methodology

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This document provides an explanation of the Child Maintenance Service statistics, their aims and the methodology used to compile the data used in the statistics.

Please note, this statistical series used to be called ‘statistics on the 2012 statutory child maintenance scheme’.

Published 30 August 2017
Last updated 27 February 2018 + show all updates
  1. Published a revised background information and methodology document, now dated February 2018. This has been revised to support the latest release of Child Maintenance Service statistics.
  2. Published revised background information and methodology document, dated 29 November 2017. Numerous changes throughout.
  3. First published.

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