Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Quarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July - September, 2024

Variable Details

VariableUCREDIT
LabelReason for claiming Universal Credit
Responses
1 Unemployed and looking for work 346
2 Not working because you were sick, injured or disabled 1132
3 Not working because of being a lone parent for a child under 215
4 Not working because of caring for someone who was sick or di 325
5 Working but entitled to Universal Credit on top of your earn 1248
6 For some other reason 142
-9 Does not apply 57889
-8 No answer 3
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationQuarterly Labour Force Survey Household Dataset, July - September, 2024
UniverseHouseholds 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.