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Slice Housing Benefit take-up by family type
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Description
Per tables HB1 and HB3 in the Housing Benefit take-up spreadsheet, take-up is 81% overall, but it varies by family type:
- 86% for pensioners
- 64% non-pensioner couples with children
- 88% non-pensioner singles with children
- 80% non-pensioner couples/singles without children
HB5 and HB7 also show that Housing Benefit take-up varies by these characteristics:
- 88% social rented vs 69% private rented
- 57% in work vs 96% out of work
However, combining these take-ups would require raking or another statistical technique, and it may be somewhat captured by applying the simpler MECE split by family type.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the linked Housing Benefit take-up spreadsheet, especially tables HB1, HB3, HB5, and HB7, and determine whether the requested family-type split is the intended MECE implementation or needs raking. No repository file, test, or entry point is identified; done should include an agreed statistical method and take-up results that match the relevant source tables.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100