These statistics cover each quarter from May 2003 to August 2007 and include all families and children in receipt of Child Benefit at the reference date.
Following the Child Benefit data loss and subsequent data embargo in 2007 this series was suspended pending review. The decision was made not to resurrect this series for several reasons. Firstly that we would be unable to provide statistics to fill in the missing quarters, secondly that the in-year quarterly movements are now well established and documented, and finally because of resource constraints.
