Skip to main content

PolicyEngine tax and benefit system for the UK.

Project description

PolicyEngine UK

PyPI version Code style: black

PolicyEngine UK is PolicyEngine's microsimulation model of the UK tax-benefit system. It uses the PolicyEngine Core microsimulation framework, which is based on OpenFisca.

The elements are described in different folders. All the modelling happens within the policyengine_uk folder.

  • The rates and other system parameters are in the parameters folder.
  • The formulas and inputs are in the variables folder.
  • This country package comes also with reforms in the reforms folder.

The files that are outside from the policyengine_uk folder are used to set up the development environment. Installation instructions are located along with other documentation in the docs folder.

The model supports multiple different input datasets provided by the user, one of which is the Family Resources Survey,1 containing microdata on household incomes across the UK. PolicyEngine UK enhances this dataset by fusing it to other surveys and reweighting it to minimize a comprehensive loss metric that measures the difference from an array of administrative totals.

Fast setup instructions (Linux / macOS)

  1. Run pip install policyengine-uk

  2. Run policyengine-uk and go through the prompt to setup microdata.

Contact

The primary maintainer for PolicyEngine UK is Nikhil Woodruff, co-founder and CTO of PolicyEngine (nikhil@policyengine.org).

Citation

You may cite the source of your analysis as "PolicyEngine UK release #.#.#, author's calculations."

  1. Department for Work and Pensions, Office for National Statistics, NatCen Social Research. (2021). Family Resources Survey, 2019-2020. [data collection]. UK Data Service. SN: 8802, http://doi.org/10.5255/UKDA-SN-8802-1

Project details


Release history Release notifications | RSS feed

Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

policyengine_uk-2.88.20.tar.gz (1.2 MB view details)

Uploaded Source

Built Distribution

If you're not sure about the file name format, learn more about wheel file names.

policyengine_uk-2.88.20-py3-none-any.whl (1.9 MB view details)

Uploaded Python 3

File details

Details for the file policyengine_uk-2.88.20.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: policyengine_uk-2.88.20.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 1.2 MB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/6.1.0 CPython/3.13.12

File hashes

Hashes for policyengine_uk-2.88.20.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 3c3939f4b4dc78be2747ec459bad2b5f341580be031af4004a554ce0c3f59682
MD5 9fe42593b7bea6366a95e459aeae507c
BLAKE2b-256 fb1164c8b0269e68d42ffdc58c74b1975dcb6a67487de526855182ecc2479fb1

See more details on using hashes here.

File details

Details for the file policyengine_uk-2.88.20-py3-none-any.whl.

File metadata

File hashes

Hashes for policyengine_uk-2.88.20-py3-none-any.whl
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 8c3dacb868f3fb18296b8ef2475edaf543f57b8056d24a58bca59b108651f272
MD5 b7ad00dbf37fa55a8ffa87bd56d0cf54
BLAKE2b-256 32f0c0e7dbcc049501dc968da0a67de4976f305228328f96fe0ad08c65301c4f

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Monitoring Depot Continuous Integration Fastly CDN Google Download Analytics Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Error logging StatusPage Status page