Release
UK labour market: October 2023
Released:
24 October 2023 7:00am
Next release:
14 November 2023
Summary
Estimates of employment, unemployment, inactivity, average weekly earnings, vacancies and other labour market related statistics for the UK.
Data
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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.
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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.
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CLA03: Claimant Count revisions triangle
Claimant Count revisions triangle, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.
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LABD: Labour disputes in the UK
Monthly estimates of labour disputes back to 1931.
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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.
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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.
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CLA02: Claimant Count by age group
Claimant Count by age group and sex, UK, published monthly. These are official statistics in development.
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HR1: Potential redundancies
Numbers of potential redundancies from HR1 forms and employers submitting them, by region and industry, Great Britain. These are official statistics in development.
Changes to this release date
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Previous date
17 October 2023 7:00am
Reason for change
To improve the quality of our Labour Market estimates, including response rates, we are in the process of transforming the Labour Force Survey, asking more people in different ways about their engagement with the jobs market. The first figures from this new transformed survey are due to be published in our headline releases from next spring. As we have explained previously – and in common with other national statistical institutes – response rates for some key ONS household surveys have been falling. This has complicated the production of some of the indicators based on the current UK Labour Force Survey (LFS). Because of this, the publication of the next ONS Labour Force Survey (previously due on Tuesday 17 October) is being put back slightly to give us additional time to produce the best possible estimates of the labour market using the best available data sources. These data will now be published on Tuesday 24 October.
About the data
Accredited Official Statistics
These are accredited official statistics. They have been independently reviewed by the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) and found to comply with the standards of trustworthiness, quality and value in the Code of Practice for Statistics. This broadly means that the statistics:
- meet user needs
- are presented clearly and accessibly
- are produced using appropriate data and sound methods
- are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest
Pre-release access list
The phrase 'Pre-release Access' refers to the practice whereby official statistics in their final form, and any accompanying written commentary, are made available to an eligible person in advance of their publication. The rules and principles which govern pre-release access are featured within the Pre-release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008.
Besides ONS staff, the following persons are given pre-release access by the period indicated before release.
