DWP Stat-Xplore: New tool to explore benefits data

DWP launched a new data visualisation and exploration tool called Stat-Xplore on 14th November 2011. Stat-Xplore provides a guided way to explore DWP benefit data, ask different questions, and see the results in an interactive chart.

Stat-Xplore can be used to download the statistics behind the visualisation or share visualisations via social networking tools or through a more traditional approach of downloading a visualisation into a common file format.

This first phase of Stat-Xplore includes data on Housing Benefit claimants, and includes local authority and parliamentary constituency breakdowns. In the near future, Stat-Xplore will include the ability of users to create their own bespoke tabulations and will include data on a wider set of DWP-administered benefits.

Stat-Xplore can be accessed at: http://statistics.dwp.gov.uk/asd/index.php?page=tabtool