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<p>Stat-Xplore was launched in May 2013 and supports the Government's commitment to open data by enabling users to construct their own, detailed summary statistics on a variety of subject areas such as housing benefit claimants and overseas national registering for a national insurance number. The next addition will be statistics on sanction decisions on jobseeker's allowance and employment and support allowance claimants in February 2014.</p><p>Since its launch in May 2013 and up to 27 January 2014, a total of 1,147 people have registered to use Stat-Xplore. Information on numbers of individual people using Stat-Xplore as non-registered users is not available. However, a total of 4,933 unique IP addresses have accessed Stat-Xplore between May 2013 and end of January 2014. Over 10,000 bespoke tables have been created by users within Stat-Xplore since May 2013.</p><p>There has not been a survey carried out among users of Stat-Xplore to date but users are invited to provide ongoing feedback.</p><p>There has not been a dedicated team responsible for developing Stat-Xplore. Officials have developed Stat-Xplore alongside other duties.</p><p>Before the launch of Stat-Xplore in May 2013, a series of short training events for DWP officials took place.</p><p>Stat-Xplore was developed during the 2012-13 financial year. The total cost of development was £247,570.80.</p><p>The maintenance and development of the Stat-Xplore website forms part of a general contract. The cost of the contract for software licences with Specialist Computer Centres Ltd for Stat-Xplore (2013-14) is £192,464.06.</p> |