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Employment and the Labour Market Theme

ESDS Government resources

General ESDS resources

Office for National Statistics resources

JISCmail list

ESDS Government resources

• Labour Force Survey (LFS) web pages

• Thematic guide: Employment and the Labour Market Introductory User Guide (PDF)

• Analysis guide: Analysis of the LFS using STATA (PDF)

• Teaching dataset: LFS 2002

• Variables that are consistent over time:
  • Country of Birth and Nationality for the LFS
  • Occupational coding and NS-SEC for LFS

• Comparability with the 2001 Census: Quarterly Labour Force Survey, Spring 2001

• Events:
  • LFS User Group Meetings
  • Introductory workshop 2003
    
    
• Publications citing the LFS: search our index of publications

• LFS FAQ

• LFS Starting Analysis

• Mail lists:
  
  • ESDS Government JISCmail list
    

General ESDS resources

• Labour Force Survey data and documentation

• Workplace Employee Relations Survey datasets

Office for National Statistics resources

• The ONS Classifications and Harmonisation Unit have some user guides which map SOC 1990 and SOC 2000 to ISCO 88 COM. Contact occupation.information@ons.gov.uk or 01329 444970 if you would like a copy of the guides.

• Labour Force Survey Quality Measures

• Occupational Coding - historical information (Word)

• NOMIS: official labour market statistics

• LFS web page at ONS

• LFS Quarterly Supplement: comprehensive results from the quarterly LFS in text, charts and tables.

• Labour Market Trends

• Comparison of 2001 Census and Labour Force Survey labour market data

• Labour market participation: the influence of social capital

• Guide to Regional and Local Labour Market Statistics (PDF)

• Workforce and employee jobs

• Social Trends

• Harmonisation web site

• Specific methodological guides including:
  
  

• Guidance on the use of LFS micro data pending full re-weighting following the 2001 Census (PDF)

• LFS: regrossing and seasonal adjustment. A description of the effects of the annual seasonal adjustment and regrossing on the headline LFS estimates

• NSQR Series Report No.12: Review of the LFS (released 4 September 2002)

 

• NSM17: Methodological issues in the production and analysis of longitudinal data from the LFS, GSS Methodology Series PDF)

JISCmail list

• Labour Market Statistics User Group JISCmail list