Facts request from the microcosm side (microcosm#840 assessment; microcosm#736 item 13). Companion to #188 and to the family-type × child-entitlement request.
Why
microcosm binds the whole dwp_universal_credit family and needs one temporal basis for it. The caseload headline is a calendar-year average of a monthly series (#184), and #188 gave family type and number of children their April–December 2025 histories — but two record sets still exist only as May 2025 snapshots:
dwp/uc_payment_distribution_may_2025 — Households on UC by Monthly Award Amount band × Family Type (28 bands incl. "No payment" and "£2500.01 or over"), 140 cells; 100 of them are bound as targets today.- the Scotland Age of Youngest Child record set (May 2025; binds
dwp.uc.scotland_households_child_under_1).
A May snapshot partition cannot be sum-consistent with a calendar-average parent: the May family-type total is 6,584,442 against the 2025 average of 6,858,287 (+4.2%), and the childless cells alone grew 7–8% over April–December 2025.
What
Extend both record sets to monthly April–December 2025 (Stat-Xplore UC_Households, count measure, Great Britain for the bands; Scotland S92000003 for age of youngest child), keeping the publisher's exact band labels (the numeric bounds and any ×12 annualisation stay a downstream declaration, as the existing package notes say) and the "No payment" band.
Shape
As #188: facts-only, monthly period typing, benefit-unit entity, assertion: observation, provenance to the archived API response. Same package ids with an april_december_2025 suffix so the May packages can be retired the way the family-type ones were.
Consumer
The 100 dwp.uc.payment_distribution_* references and dwp.uc.scotland_households_child_under_1 in microcosm's uk_population_targets.json take value_operation: calendar_year_average alongside the headline, family-type and children cells.
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Facts request from the microcosm side (microcosm#840 assessment; microcosm#736 item 13). Companion to #188 and to the family-type × child-entitlement request.
Why
microcosm binds the whole
dwp_universal_creditfamily and needs one temporal basis for it. The caseload headline is a calendar-year average of a monthly series (#184), and #188 gave family type and number of children their April–December 2025 histories — but two record sets still exist only as May 2025 snapshots:dwp/uc_payment_distribution_may_2025— Households on UC by Monthly Award Amount band × Family Type (28 bands incl. "No payment" and "£2500.01 or over"), 140 cells; 100 of them are bound as targets today.dwp.uc.scotland_households_child_under_1).A May snapshot partition cannot be sum-consistent with a calendar-average parent: the May family-type total is 6,584,442 against the 2025 average of 6,858,287 (+4.2%), and the childless cells alone grew 7–8% over April–December 2025.
What
Extend both record sets to monthly April–December 2025 (Stat-Xplore
UC_Households, count measure, Great Britain for the bands; Scotland S92000003 for age of youngest child), keeping the publisher's exact band labels (the numeric bounds and any ×12 annualisation stay a downstream declaration, as the existing package notes say) and the "No payment" band.Shape
As #188: facts-only, monthly
periodtyping, benefit-unit entity,assertion: observation, provenance to the archived API response. Same package ids with anapril_december_2025suffix so the May packages can be retired the way the family-type ones were.Consumer
The 100
dwp.uc.payment_distribution_*references anddwp.uc.scotland_households_child_under_1in microcosm'suk_population_targets.jsontakevalue_operation: calendar_year_averagealongside the headline, family-type and children cells.🤖 Generated with Claude Code