PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data

Repository creating UK microdata.

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Indexed issues: 20
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Merged PRs (30d): 4

Dominant language: Python
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Last GitHub push: Sep 4, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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LA Band D target is silently dropped now, and will compute as a sum-vs-level mismatch once council_tax_band_d_amount exists Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#483 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 15, 2026
Disability thresholds accept only the survey year's rate: a full-year reporter of the previous April's rate loses the enhanced flag and drops a category band Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#481 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Rail, bus and fuel calibrations run after base-year materialisation, so the shipped file is not uprate-invertible Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#479 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 3, 2026
childcare_expenses has no calibration target and sits at the top of the plausible range Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#471 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2026
Tax-Free Childcare spending is ~1.9x the repo's own declared calibration target, while caseload is on target Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#470 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 27, 2026
ETB services imputation divides household totals by household size and stores the per-head figure in household-entity columns Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#469 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Local-area UC calibration targets are positionally misaligned: every constituency and local authority is assigned another area's UC count Open

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Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 56/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#468 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 26, 2026
Scottish water and sewerage charges are zeroed in FRS 2024-25 (CSEWAMT retired) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#467 · Opened Aug 22, 2026
No calibration targets for UC elements: childcare runs 2.3x official, housing/LCWRA/carer unbenchmarked Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#466 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2026
Two-child limit targets declared at 2026 are structurally unreachable (limit abolished April 2026) Open

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#465 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2026
WAS wealth imputation: student_loan_balance allocated by positional index, and QRF trained on raw negative sentinels (hbedrmr8 ~96% missing) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#463 · Opened Aug 19, 2026
EDUCQUAL mapping is inverted against the current FRS codeframe Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#459 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 17, 2026
Target definitions: dwellings matched to households, and household-type targets that cannot all be satisfied Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#457 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Calibration loss under-penalises overshoots and silently drops targets Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#456 · Opened Aug 13, 2026
Housing association rents ~20% above benchmark; housing/rent_social target missed by 1.55x Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 38/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#454 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 12, 2026
housing/total_mortgage cites the ONS rent bulletin, which carries no mortgage figure Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#453 · Opened Aug 12, 2026
UC caseload runs ~40% below administrative counts, capping aggregate reform estimates Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#452 · 5 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
Impute UC deduction attributes (latent rate, type combination) at dataset build Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#450 · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Scottish/Welsh council tax ~20% above devolved budget figures; WAS owned_land imputation unstable across releases Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#448 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 26, 2026
enhanced_cps exporter calls renamed-away load_enhanced_cps_person_frame; shipped feed lacks social_security_retirement Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

PolicyEngine/policyengine-uk-data#438 · Opened Jul 5, 2026

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