Release:UK labour market: October 2023

Release date:
24 October 2023 07:00

Next release:
14 November 2023

Estimates of employment, unemployment, inactivity, average weekly earnings, vacancies and other labour market related statistics for the UK.

Publications

Labour market overview, UK: October 2023

Estimates of employment, unemployment, economic inactivity and other employment-related statistics for the UK.

Data

CLA01: Claimant Count (Experimental Statistics)

Claimant Count by sex including Jobseeker's Allowance and out of work Universal Credit claimants, UK, published monthly. Experimental Statistics.
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.
CLA03: Claimant Count revisions triangle

Claimant Count revisions triangle, published monthly.
LABD: Labour disputes in the UK

Monthly estimates of labour disputes back to 1931.
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.
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.
CLA02: Claimant Count by age group (Experimental Statistics)

Claimant Count by age group and sex, UK, published monthly. Experimental Statistics.
HR1: Potential redundancies

Numbers of potential redundancies from HR1 forms and employers submitting them, by region and industry, Great Britain. Experimental Statistics.

The United Kingdom Statistics Authority has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in accordance with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

Designation can be broadly interpreted to mean that the statistics:

meet identified user needs
are well explained and readily accessible
are produced according to sound methods
are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

Once statistics have been designated as National Statistics it is a statutory requirement that the Code of Practice shall continue to be observed.

Pre-release access list for UK labour market: October 2023

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.

Access	Department	Duration
Chair	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
BRC Member x 2	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Chief of Staff x 2	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Head of Economy Forecast	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Head of Economic Analysis and Modelling	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Senior Economist x 4	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Economist x 3	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Head of Receipts Forecast	Office for Budget Responsibility	114 hours
Governor	Bank of England	114 hours
Deputy Governor Monetary Policy	Bank of England	114 hours
Deputy Governor Financial Stability	Bank of England	114 hours
Deputy Governor Markets and Banking	Bank of England	114 hours
Chief Economist	Bank of England	114 hours
External MPC Member x 4	Bank of England	114 hours
Governor's Economic Assistant	Bank of England	114 hours
Governor's Private Secretary	Bank of England	114 hours
PA to Deputy Governor Monetary Policy	Bank of England	114 hours
PA to Chief Economist	Bank of England	114 hours
Lead Economic Analyst, Current Economic Conditions Division x 2	Bank of England	114 hours
Economic advisor, Current Economic Conditions Division x 3	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Manager, Current Economic Conditions Division x 2	Bank of England	114 hours
Head, MPC Secretariat	Bank of England	114 hours
Head, External Engagement Division x 2	Bank of England	114 hours
Researcher, Monetary Policy Outlook Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Economic advisor, Monetary Policy Outlook Division x 6	Bank of England	114 hours
Consultant Forecasting review, Independent Evaluation Office x 2	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Manager, Structural Economics Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Head, Structural Economics Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Private Secretary to Deputy Governor Financial Stability	Bank of England	114 hours
Private Secretary to Deputy Governor Monetary Policy	Bank of England	114 hours
Economic Analyst, Current Economic Conditions Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Director, Monetary Analysis	Bank of England	114 hours
Head, Current Economic Conditions Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Head, Monetary Policy Outlook Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Lead Economic Analyst, Monetary Policy Outlook Division x 3	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Policy Manager, Market Intelligence & MPC Secretariat	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Advisor to External MPC Member x 4	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Manager, Monetary Policy Outlook Division & MPC Secretariat	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Research Assistant, Monetary Policy Outlook Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Director, Independent Evaluation Office	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Manager, Monetary Policy Outlook Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Manager, MPR Editor	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Manager, External Engagement Division + MPC Secretariat	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Technical advisor, Monetary Analysis	Bank of England	114 hours
Head, Monetary Financial Conditions Division & MPC Secretariat	Bank of England	114 hours
Private Secretary to Deputy Governor Markets, Banking & Resolution	Bank of England	114 hours
Private Secretary to Chief Economist	Bank of England	114 hours
Research advisor, Monetary Policy Outlook Division	Bank of England	114 hours
Senior Policy Advisor, Forecasting review, Independent Evaluation Office	Bank of England	114 hours

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Changes to this release date

Previous date:

17 October 2023 07:00

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.