The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is a survey of the employment circumstances of the UK population.
It is the largest household survey in the UK and provides the official measures of employment and unemployment.
Outputs that use this data
Summaries
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Regional Profile of North East - Economy, June 2013
19-Jun-2013Key facts and figures about the economy, employment and unemployment for the North East region.
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Regional Profile of North West - Economy, June 2013
19-Jun-2013Key facts and figures about the economy, employment and unemployment for the North West region.
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Regional Profile of Yorkshire and The Humber - Economy, June 2013
19-Jun-2013Key facts and figures about the economy, employment and unemployment for the Yorkshire and The Humber region.
Publications
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Index of Labour Costs per Hour (ILCH) Q1 2013 (experimental)
17-Jun-2013Also known as Labour Costs Index (LCI). Measures changes in the average labour costs per hour worked. Labour costs include wages and salaries as well as employer social contributions, maternity, paternity and sick pay and benefits in kind.
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Labour Market Statistics, June 2013
12-Jun-2013This bulletin contains the latest estimates of labour market statistics (including employment, unemployment and economic inactivity) for the United Kingdom.
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Labour Market Statistics Data Tables (Excel Spreadsheets), June 2013
12-Jun-2013Excel spreadsheets containing estimates of labour market statistics are available here. These spreadsheets contain historic estimates going back as far as comparable data exists for each time series.
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Reconciliation of Estimates of Jobs, June 2013
12-Jun-2013This report compares the latest Workforce Jobs (WFJ) estimates with the equivalent estimates of jobs from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). This is produced every quarter, when the latest WFJ estimates are released.
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Single Month Labour Force Survey Estimates, June 2013 (Not Designated as National Statistics)
12-Jun-2013These single month LFS analyses have been produced as a tool to assist in understanding the movements in the published three month average LFS estimates. These estimates are not designated as National Statistics.
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Measuring National Well-being - Review of domains and measures, 2013
30-May-2013This review of domains and measures honours a commitment made in November 2012 in 'Measuring National Well-being: Life in the UK, 2012’ that ONS would ‘review and further refine domains and measures of well-being and the criteria used to select them’.
Data
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Region and Country Profiles - Economy, June 2013
19-Jun-2013Region and Country Profiles provides a source of essential statistics for the regions of England and the constituent countries of the UK (Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland). The tables provide a wide range of economy and labour market statistics to compare the countries, regions and local authority areas.
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Index of Labour Costs per Hour (ILCH) Q1 2013 (experimental)
17-Jun-2013Also known as Labour Costs Index (LCI). Measures changes in the average labour costs per hour worked. Labour costs include wages and salaries as well as employer social contributions, maternity, paternity and sick pay and benefits in kind.
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Public Sector Employment, Q1 2013
12-Jun-2013This set of tables contains the latest public sector employment estimates. For most sources that contribute to these statistics, the employment is reported for a specific day in March 2013. The public sector comprises central government, local government and public corporations as defined for the UK National Accounts. Estimates of public sector employment are provided on a headcount and full-time equivalent basis for sectors and industries, and also by region on a headcount basis only. In addition, Civil Service employment is provided by government department and agency. Employment in Executive Non-Departmental Public Bodies (NDPBs) is provided, aggregated by sponsoring department. Since the inclusion of some financial institutions in the public sector in 2009, estimates for public sector employment and employment in public corporations have been provided with and without these financial institutions. Estimates of private sector employment are provided.
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Public Sector Employment, Q1 2013 Dataset
12-Jun-2013This dataset contains the seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted time series of UK public sector employment, containing the latest Q1 2013 estimates. Public sector employment has been provided by industry and sector classification.