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Identification of existing threshold rules in Labour Force and Annual Population Surveys, with recommendations to improve consistency and the communication of uncertainty.
The characteristic profile of the responding sample to the Labour Market Survey, providing the first available evidence on the socio-demographic composition for the transformed, mixed-mode survey.
Technical design of the Labour Market Survey Statistical Test, comparing the Labour Market Survey prototype and the Labour Force Survey. Includes response rates and paradata collected throughout the Statistical Test.
Summary of findings from each Labour Markey Survey Statistical Test report as well as an overview of the purpose of the test, information on the survey design, and the work that will follow on from the results.
This report provides a comparison of core labour market outputs from the Labour Market Survey Statistical Test and the Labour Force Survey over the same period (November 2018 to January 2019). It highlights methodological differences and similarities and provides some commentary on the comparability of such figures, as well as recommendations for future research.
This article summarises the impact of changes made to the weighting methodology used in the Labour Force Survey longitudinal datasets.
An explanation of the revisions to the workforce jobs series released on 11 December 2018 in the Labour market statistical bulletin.
In November 2017, we suspended Dataset A08 (Labour market status of disabled people) due to a large increase between Quarter 2 and 3 2017. While the evidence was not conclusive we could not identify any quality issues and reinstated the dataset from 15 May 2018 subject to health warnings. This article makes conclusions about the nature of the large increase and provides advice to users about how to interpret the disability series.
A report on progress to assess potential bias in the Labour Force Survey through a comparison against alternative data sources including proxy labour measures from administrative data.