Accounts data for registered charities in England and Wales, 2014-2017

Mohan, John (2018). Accounts data for registered charities in England and Wales, 2014-2017. [Data Collection]. Colchester, Essex: UK Data Service. 10.5255/UKDA-SN-853257

Data description (abstract)

Summary data captured from a representative sample of registered charities in England and Wales on their funding sources and expenditures. The dataset created by the Third Sector Research Centre (TSRC) and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) captures accounts data for registered charities in England and Wales. The data underpin the NCVO Almanac Of Civil Society. The purpose of this project was to gather information about the income sources of organisations in an economical manner which would allow estimation of both proportions (e.g. what percentage of organisations receive funding of a particular kind) and amounts (e.g. how much of the charity sector’s income is derived from fees for services).

Data creators:

Creator Name	Affiliation	ORCID (as URL)
Mohan John	University of Birmingham	https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6063-3454

Sponsors:

Economic and Social Research Council

Grant reference:

ES/N005724/1

Topic classification:

Social welfare policy and systems
Politics
Economics

Keywords:

charities; third sector; voluntary organisations

Alternative title:

Building the third sector evidence base

Grant holders:

John Mohan, David Kane, Karl Wilding

Project dates:

From	To
1 February 2015	31 March 2018

Date published:

13 Nov 2018 16:58

Last modified:

13 Nov 2018 16:58

Coverage and Methodology

Temporal coverage:

From	To
1 April 2014	31 March 2016

Collection period:

Date from:	Date to:
1 April 2015	31 March 2018

Geographical area:

England and Wales

Country:

United Kingdom

Data collection method:

Accounts data accessed via the Charity Commission website through which recent reports and accounts are available for all charities with incomes greater than £25 000. Within each income range, organisations are sampled randomly and if (as is often the case for administrative reasons) a particular charity’s accounts are not available, the next available one in the sample is captured. Data entry is conducted from the notes to charity accounts. Sampling weights are calculated using inverse probabilities of being sampled – thus, if there are 1000 charities in a particular income range, of which half are sampled, these are assigned a weighting of 2 in the organisation weight (weighting_orgs). Other weights are calculated by NCVO to allow estimation of the total assets of the sector (weight_a), total income (weight_i) and total expenditure (weight_e). More details about the methodology in the documentation files.

Observation unit:

Organization

Kind of data:

Numeric

Type of data:

Business microdata

Resource language:

English

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Data collections

Charity Commission data on registered charities in England and Wales

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Building the Third Sector Evidence Base: Data capture from accounts of registered charities and associated knowledge exchange activities

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