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Labour Force Survey 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 March 2022
Frequency
Quarterly
Dataset theme
Society
Restrictions for access
Access for all accredited researchers
Project approval
Projects must be accredited
Search keywords
Economy Education Employment

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Society
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Survey
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
UK
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
01 January 2011 to 31 March 2022
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Quarterly
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
Postcode
Data creatorThe name of the organisation that produced or published this resource
Office for National Statistics
Data contributorsThe name(s) of any organisation(s), other than the data supplier or provider, that have data which are included in this dataset resource
Licensing statusThe license used for making this resource available and defining how it can be used
Restricted
Disclosure controlThe standard or bespoke disclosure control rules that apply to this dataset
Standard disclosure rules apply
Restrictions for accessRestrictions for users and researchers accessing data in Google Cloud Platform
Access for all accredited researchers
Research outputsThe approval route researchers must take for their outputs to be published
No requirements
Project approvalThe project approvals needed for this resource
Projects must be accredited
Research disclaimerThe disclaimer required to be published with the outputs for this dataset
No requirements
AcronymAny other names or acronyms used to refer to the data
LFS
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
Labour Force Survey and Annual Population Survey