{
  "status": "Descriptive weighted analysis; independent review and design-based uncertainty outstanding",
  "period": "April 2024 to March 2025",
  "geography": "UK private households; no city/county estimates",
  "sources": [
    {
      "study": 9603,
      "file": "dvhh_uk_anon_v3_2024.dta",
      "sha256": "8d33283dbdc41ae4d23d71ec525700fd60b04e5ccd2937f1df74dbf4c8a0082c"
    },
    {
      "study": 9563,
      "file": "househol.dta",
      "sha256": "17d7001ba5d45ad2ad27cf951ff178af5ad53130d78fd1effc315b759b3651b7"
    }
  ],
  "LCF": [
    {
      "group": "All households",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 5000,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 73.6,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 118.4
    },
    {
      "group": "Social renters",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 640,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 61.3,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 137.2
    },
    {
      "group": "Private renters",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 750,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 67.7,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 267.2
    },
    {
      "group": "Mortgage / rental purchase",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 1470,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 84.5,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 73.2
    },
    {
      "group": "Outright owners",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 2080,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 72.5,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 70.6
    },
    {
      "group": "One-person households",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 1540,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 40.3,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 96.3
    },
    {
      "group": "Households of 2 or more people",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 3460,
      "foodGbpPerWeek": 87.3,
      "housingFuelPowerGbpPerWeek": 127.4
    }
  ],
  "FRS": [
    {
      "group": "All households",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 16290,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 8.6,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 4.6
    },
    {
      "group": "Social renters",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 2720,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 27.7,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 16.5
    },
    {
      "group": "Private renters",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 2290,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 12.1,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 5.8
    },
    {
      "group": "Mortgage / part own part rent",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 4060,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 3.6,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 1.6
    },
    {
      "group": "Outright owners",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 7060,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 2.1,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 0.9
    },
    {
      "group": "With dependent children",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 4080,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 11.9,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 6
    },
    {
      "group": "Without dependent children",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 12210,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 7.4,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 4.1
    },
    {
      "group": "With a disabled adult or child",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 9650,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 11.8,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 6.7
    },
    {
      "group": "Without a disabled adult or child",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 6640,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 4.3,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 1.8
    },
    {
      "group": "Social renters with dependent children",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 710,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 33,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 18
    },
    {
      "group": "Private renters with dependent children",
      "unweightedHouseholdsRounded10": 830,
      "foodInsecurePercent": 14.7,
      "veryLowFoodSecurityPercent": 6.9
    }
  ],
  "reconciliation": {
    "lcfFood": {
      "microdata": 73.6,
      "published": 73.7,
      "status": "close; anonymised file differs by 0.1 GBP after rounding"
    },
    "lcfHousingFuelPower": {
      "microdata": 118.4,
      "published": 118.4,
      "status": "matches at published precision"
    },
    "lcfTotalExpenditure": {
      "microdata": 698.4,
      "published": 676.6,
      "status": "Definition mismatch: p630tp includes expenditure outside the published total; no total-budget shares or residual-income estimates released"
    },
    "frsFoodInsecurity": {
      "microdata": 8.6,
      "publishedRoundedPercent": 9,
      "status": "check rounds to published whole percent"
    }
  },
  "methods": {
    "LCF": "Annual calibrated weight cal_weight_annual; p601t food incl child spending and p604t net housing/fuel/power; household-weighted means; a121 tenure groups documented in Volume F.",
    "FRS": "Household weight gross4; supplied foodsec score 3–10 = food insecure, 6–10 = very low; past 30 days relative to interview. tentyp2 tenure; depchldh dependent children; diswhha1/diswhhc1 Equality Act wider disability definition.",
    "privacy": "No record-level outputs, identifiers, extrema or fine geography. Groups require n>=100 and food-security positive/negative counts>=10. Sample bases rounded to nearest ten. This is an analysis rule, not a claim of UKDS disclosure approval.",
    "uncertainty": "Weighted point estimates only. No design-based confidence intervals or significance tests: validated PSU/strata/replicate design not established for these releases. Group differences are descriptive associations, not causal effects.",
    "comparability": "LCF and FRS are separate samples. Do not join respondents or imply these are the same households. Outright-owner housing costs exclude imputed rent; mortgage capital and Council Tax are not in the LCF housing category.",
    "notCompleted": "No Understanding Society longitudinal results, city/county estimates or population-wide new index. LCF total-budget shares are withheld because the anonymised total uses a different definition."
  }
}