Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2017

Variable Details

VariableUCREDIT
LabelReason for claiming Universal Credit
Question text (In the week ending Sunday the [date]) was the main reason you were receiving Universal Credit because you were... 1 Unemployed and looking for work, 2 Not working because you were sick, injured or disabled, 3 Not working because of being a lone parent for a child under 5, 4 Not working because of caring for someone who was sick or disabled, 5 Working but entitled to Universal Credit on top of your earnings, 6 For some other reason?
Responses
1 Unemployed and looking for work 160
2 Not working because you were sick, injured or disabled 89
3 Not working because of being a lone parent for a child under 35
4 Not working because of caring for someone who was sick or di 20
5 Working but entitled to Universal Credit on top of your earn 102
6 For some other reason 29
-9 Does not apply 91777
-8 No answer 4
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, October - December, 2017
UniverseLocation of units of observation:National;Population:Households in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
SamplingSample drawn from main LFS data. See documentation for details.
Study TypeUntil 2015, data were produced from the April-June and October-December quarters of the main LFS each year. From January 2015, the household datasets are produced for each quarter.