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Short Term Employment Survey in Great Britain

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Summary

The Short Term Employment Surveys are surveys of approx 37,000 Great British businesses collecting data on how many employee jobs businesses have on a specified date.

Description

The Short Term Employment Survey (STES) are three statutory, quarterly surveys of private sector businesses. The surveys ask businesses for their number of employees (male, female; full-time, part-time) on a specified date (the second or third Friday of March, June, September or December). Results from the combined surveys cover all sectors of the UK economy and all industries, with the exception of agriculture, forestry and fishing, and private households. Online questionnaires are sent to a sample of approximately 37,000 businesses each quarter. The combined surveys cover all sectors of the private sector economy and all industries in England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain) with the exception of agriculture, forestry and fishing, and private households. Northern Ireland businesses are not approached via STES. The STES data feeds into the quarterly UK Workforce Jobs estimates published by the Office for National Statistics.

About this data

Data creator
Office for National Statistics
Temporal coverage
01 June 2020 to 30 September 2023
Frequency
Quarterly
Dataset theme
Business and economy
Restrictions for access
Access for all accredited researchers
Project approval
Projects must be accredited
Search keywords
Business Employment

Metadata

Metadata

Dataset themeMain category for the topic of the resource
Business and economy
Dataset resource typeThe type of the dataset resource
Survey
Geographic coverageThe geographic area covered by the dataset
Great Britain
Temporal coverageThe timeframes covered by these data
01 June 2020 to 30 September 2023
FrequencyThe frequency at which the dataset resource is published or updated
Quarterly
Geographic levelThe lowest level of geography covered by the dataset
Not applicable
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
STES
ProvenanceDetails of how this dataset resource came to be generated
Short Term Employment Survey