Summary

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. These are official statistics in development.

• 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. These are official statistics in development.

• 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. These are official statistics in development.

• HR1: Potential redundancies

  Numbers of potential redundancies from HR1 forms and employers submitting them, by region and industry, Great Britain. These are official statistics in development.

Contact details

Changes to this release date

1. Previous date

   17 October 2023 7:00am

   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.

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