DOI: 10.5255/ukda-sn-7603-10
title: Continuous Recording of Social Housing Lettings and Sales (CORE), 2007/08-2016/17
title: Continuous Recording of Social Housing Lettings and Sales (CORE), 2007/08-
title: CORE

description: The CORE datasets contained in the study cover annual official statistics on new lettings of the stock owned by local authorities and private registered providers of social housing in England, as well as sales of the social stock owned by private registered providers. For each year, data is structured into five datasets, four based on type of letting (social rent general needs and supported needs, and affordable rent general needs and supported needs) and one based on sales by private registered providers. All datasets are based on administrative data collected via the &lt;i&gt;COntinuous REcording of Lettings and Sales&lt;/i&gt; (CORE) system. It is a regulatory requirement for providers registered with the Homes and Communities Agency to supply the data. For those who are not registered, submissions are voluntary. Local authorities have participated in CORE since 2004-5 on a voluntary basis. In the first year, only 24% of stock-holding local authorities participated, but the number of authorities participating has steadily increased, with all authorities submitting some data for 2013-14.  Weighting is applied to adjust for non-response by local authorities for social rent datasets and imputation is also carried out to address item level non-response of key data on tenant characteristic, for both local authorities and private registered providers. The three datasets for affordable rent and sales are not weighted or imputed.&lt;br&gt;
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The collection of social housing lettings and sales data allows for a better understanding of the socio-economic and demographic make-up of affordable housing customers by tenure and of local housing markets and affordable housing products. These data are used by central government to inform national housing policy and by local government to inform their Strategic Housing Market Assessments. The data are also used by academics, researchers, charities and the wider public to understand social housing issues. &lt;br&gt;
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Further information may be found on the GOV.UK &lt;a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/rents-lettings-and-tenancies" title="Social housing lettings"&gt;Social housing lettings&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/social-housing-sales-including-right-to-buy-and-transfers" title="Social housing sales"&gt;Social housing sales&lt;/a&gt; webpages.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;Latest edition&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
For the seventh edition (October 2018) the 2016-17 lettings files were replaced with new versions, to correct a data error that had been discovered.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;b&gt;End User Licence, Special Licence and Secure Access datasets&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br&gt;
The CORE datasets are available at three access levels, depending on the level of detail in the data. &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the standard End User Licence (EUL) version (SN 7603) the geographic level of the data is set at Government Office Region (GOR). Letting and voiding dates are provided at  month and year only; age variables are top-coded at 90 years; income, benefits, earnings, charge and shortfall variables are banded to disguise unique values; landlords are grouped into coded categories.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For the Special Licence access (SL) version (SN 7604), the geographic level is set at Local Authority. The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard EUL. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version. &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;For Secure Access (SN 7686) the full CORE datasets are available, with some key variables recoded. Prospective users of the Secure Access version will need to fulfil additional requirements, including completion of face-to-face training and agreement to further stringent access conditions.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;