Council Tax Valuation Lists: Summary
Published by Valuation Office Agency in 2010
Data Type:Administrative
This release includes details of the number of dwellings by Council Tax band for each administrative area and parliamentary constituency in England and Wales together with national and regional totals.
Time
England and Wales datasets are updated annually. Additional datasets are provided at other times of year which relate to England or Wales only.
Dataset Quality
Release notes with a section on data quality are provided with the release. The information supplied in the tables is based on administrative data held within the VOA's operational database. The VOA has made every effort to ensure its accuracy. The greatest inaccuracy is in the statistics for parliamentary constituency for which postcodes were allocated based on matching to the National Statistics Postcode Lookup (NSPL) file. There were 9,000 out of 24.8 million records (or 0.04%) for which it was not possible to find an equivalent postcode in the NSPL. For all tables counts are rounded to the nearest 10 and those less than 5 are reported as negligible
Dataset Access and Use
Freely accessible data tables are provided. The most recent tables are provided on the VOA website while data for from 2010 are held by the National Archive
Government attitudes to research use of their data appear favourable.
Geography
Coverage: England & Wales
Units: Other
The smallest scale provided in this data release is parliamentary constituency. Data are also provided at the local authority level. Additional datasets are provided that relate to England or Wales only.
