jsa_sample: Sample Jobseeker's Allowance Data

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Sample Jobseeker's Allowance Data

Description

A small sample dataset from the Jobseeker's Allowance dataset (NM_1_1) for the UK, Great Britain, and England. Useful for offline examples and testing.

Usage

jsa_sample

Format

A tibble with 3 rows and 12 columns:

GEOGRAPHY_CODE

ONS geography code

GEOGRAPHY_NAME

Geography name (UK, GB, England)

SEX

Sex code (7 = Total)

SEX_NAME

Sex description

ITEM

Item code

ITEM_NAME

Item description

MEASURES

Measure code (20100)

MEASURES_NAME

Measure description

DATE

Date code (YYYY-MM format)

DATE_NAME

Date description

OBS_VALUE

Observed value (number of claimants)

OBS_STATUS

Observation status code

RECORD_COUNT

Number of records in query

Source

Nomis API: https://www.nomisweb.co.uk

Examples

data(jsa_sample)
head(jsa_sample)
summary(jsa_sample$OBS_VALUE)

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