Labour Force Survey UK Indexed
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Summary
A survey of households living at private addresses in the UK as well as people residing in NHS accommodation.
Description
The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a survey of employment circumstances of the UK population. It is one of the largest continuous household surveys in the UK. Its purpose is to provide information on the UK labour market which can then be used to develop, manage, evaluate and report on labour market policies. This data is indexed to address and demography from the reference data management framework. The datasets available from this survey are: LFS person-level data (quarterly); LFS household-level data (quarterly), LFS longitudinal data (two quarters and five quarters); however, only LFS longitudinal (two quarters) is currently available in the Integrated Data Service (IDS); APS person-level data (rolling annual datasets on a quarterly basis), APS household-level data (annually), APS longitudinal (two years), APS pooled (three years).
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About this data
- Data creator
- Office for National Statistics
- Temporal coverage
- 01 January 2011 to 31 December 2024
- Frequency of collection
- Quarterly
- Dataset resource theme
- Society
- Restrictions for access
- Access for all accredited researchers
- Project approval
- Projects must be accredited
- Search keywords
- Economy Education Employment
Metadata
Metadata
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Dataset resource themeMain category of the topic of this resource.
- Society
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Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource.
- Survey
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Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset.
- UK
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Temporal coverage The time frames covered by these data.
- 01 January 2011 to 31 December 2024
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Frequency of collectionThe frequency at which the Dataset Resource is collected i.e. published or updated.
- Quarterly
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Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset.
- Geography Entry ID from RDMF for the lower layer super output area
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Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource.
- Office for National Statistics
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Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used.
- Restricted
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Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset.
- Standard disclosure rules apply
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Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform.
- Access for all accredited researchers
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Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published.
- No requirements
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Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource.
- Projects must be accredited
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Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset.
- No requirements
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AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data.
- LFS
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IDS Business Catalogue identifierThe identifier for this dataset resource.
- 0.0081
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ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated.
- Labour Force Survey