UKMOD Explore

UKMOD Explore is a web-based version of UKMOD, using input data from the Family Resources Survey (FRS). It is accessible to everyone without the need to register and gain access to the underlying data. It allows the creation of reform scenarios by modifying – through an intuitive web-based interface – key parameters of the tax-benefit system. UKMOD Explore then produces a fiscal overview and detailed distributional tables, allowing to compare the reform with a baseline consisting in the actual legislation for the selected year.

UKMOD Explore is available for the UK as a whole, for its 4 constituent nations, and for London. It includes models for the years 2021-2025. It is also available to explore different Basic Income options (costs and distributional implications) in a “normal”, year (2020 pre-pandemic). UKMOD Explore also allows you to save your own scenarios, and load previously saved ones.

Just click on the map below, select the model of your interest and start playing with the scenarios! (*)

UKMOD Explore does not allow downloading the detailed output micro-data. If you are interested in the desktop version of UKMOD Explore (called UKMOD Light), which will allow you to access the input and output micro-data, please get in touch.

For more details, watch our introductory video. The video contains an introduction to microsimulation modelling and UKMOD in particular, and then a hands-on description of UKMOD Explore. If you are interested in the latter part only, jump to minute 21:00.

(*) Note that you can run only one scenario at a time. Do not attempt at running different instances of UKMOD Explore on different browsers / browser tabs, as this might cause errors in the output. Note also that UKMOD Explore is not optimised for mobile access.

_{UKMOD Explore has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 730998.}