Bringing the numbers to life
- DWP's use of data
Mike Payne, Information Directorate, DWP
DWP administered benefits
Jobseekers Allowance
Income Support
Incapacity Benefit / Employment Support Allowance
Pension Credit
State Pension
Housing / Council Tax Benefit
Employment Programmes
Cover over 17 million individuals
Publish quarterly
Based on ‘complete’ administrative data, back to 1999
Tabulation Tool
Tabulation Tool
NOMIS
Excel tables
Traditional DWP model
Make statistics available
Exploration /
analysis by user
via
via
Tabtool / NOMIS / Excel
Excel / other
specialist software
Why improve?
• Increased user expectation
• Visualisation helps transparency
• Fits with GSS Web Dissemination Strategy
• More aware of our own statistics
• Can help quality assurance
• … and little additional resource needed !
Google Public Data Explorer
• Launched in March 2010
• Experimental, in Google Labs
• Uses Trendalyzer, acquired from Gapminder
• official Dataset Directory
Importing Public Data
• Need a Google account
• Create dataset using
Dataset Publishing
Language (DSPL)
• Add XML metadata file to
existing CSV data files
• Zip dataset and upload
• Set access permissions …
and enjoy!
DWP …
• … are developing a first dataset to go into
Public Data Explorer
• Client Group breakdown for main DWP
benefits
• Contains local authority breakdown, and data
back to 1999
DWP on Public Data Explorer
Example screenshots …
Line chart
Bar chart
Bar chart –
click play to
animate time
series
Bubble chart
Bubble chart
Bubble chart
Bubble chart
Maps
Bringing the numbers to life
- DWP's use of data
Mike Payne, Information Directorate, DWP