Summary

Estimates of employment, unemployment, inactivity, average weekly earnings, vacancies and other labour market related statistics for the UK.

Publications

• Labour market overview, UK: November 2023

  Estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK.

• Using administrative data to create headline labour market figures

  Estimates created by applying administrative data to Labour Force Survey (LFS) base numbers, in response to data quality concerns with LFS estimates.

• Vacancies and jobs in the UK: November 2023

  Estimates of the number of vacancies and jobs for the UK.

• Average weekly earnings in Great Britain: November 2023

  Estimates of growth in earnings for employees before tax and other deductions from pay.

Data

• CLA01: Claimant Count

  Claimant Count by sex including Jobseeker's Allowance and out of work Universal Credit claimants, UK, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.

• VACS03: Vacancies by size of business

  Vacancies by size of business.

• X10: Adjusted employment, unemployment, and economic inactivity

  Experimental labour market estimates using administrative data to produce adjusted UK employment, unemployment and economic inactivity measures, seasonally adjusted. Includes a breakdown by countries and regions of the UK.

• X06: Single month vacancies estimates (not designated as National Statistics)

  Vacancies by industry and size of business, UK, single month, not seasonally adjusted. Vacancy Survey.

• CLA03: Claimant Count revisions triangle

  Claimant Count revisions triangle, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.

• A10: International comparisons of employment and unemployment rates

  International comparisons of employment, unemployment and economic inactivity, published monthly. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

• EARN01: Average weekly earnings

  Average weekly earnings at sector level headline estimates, Great Britain, monthly, seasonally adjusted. Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey.

• A01: Summary of labour market statistics

  Labour market statistics summary data table, including earnings, employment, unemployment, redundancies and vacancies, Great Britain and UK, published monthly.

• CLA02: Claimant Count by age group

  Claimant Count by age group and sex, UK, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.

• VACS02: Vacancies by industry

  Vacancies by industry.

• VACS01: Vacancies and unemployment

  Vacancies and unemployment.

• X09: Real average weekly earnings using consumer price inflation (seasonally adjusted)

  Average weekly earnings for the whole economy, for total and regular pay, in real terms (adjusted for consumer price inflation), UK, monthly, seasonally adjusted.

• EARN02: Average weekly earnings by sector

  Average weekly earnings at sector level including manufacturing, finance and services, Great Britain, monthly, non-seasonally adjusted. Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey.

• EARN03: Average weekly earnings by industry

  Average weekly earnings at industry level including manufacturing, construction and energy, Great Britain, monthly, non-seasonally adjusted. Monthly Wages and Salaries Survey.

• LABD: Labour disputes in the UK

  Monthly estimates of labour disputes back to 1931.

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