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The article considers the reason behind the switch of Britain's Labor Force Survey (LFS) from a seasonal-quarter basis to a calendar-quarter basis and explains what the ONS is doing to mitigate the effects of this change on users. The country has been obliged to change the basis of its LFS questionnaire and microdata outputs due to a European Union regulation relating to the conduct of continuous labor force surveys in all member states. The switch will also enhance its comparability with other surveys.

The article provides information on a framework for labor costs statistics developed by the Office of National Statistics in Great Britain. The labor costs framework consists of a set of organizing principles that support the compilation and presentation of a set of statistics. The concepts that make up the labor costs framework consist of data quality and data type, in relation to user's needs.

This section presents several charts and tables related to labor market statistics in Great Britain.

This section presents several charts and tables that show labor market statistics for Great Britain as of February 2006.

The article compares statistics on jobs from the Labor Force Survey (LFS) in Great Britain with equivalent estimates from the Workforce Jobs (WFJ) series as of December 2005. Some of the key points that emerged from the comparison indicate that the unadjusted LFS estimate of total British jobs is lower than the WFJ estimate by 1.08 million. However, the LFS estimate of self-employment jobs is higher than the figure used in the WFJ series.

Presents the report published by Great Britain's Office for National Statistics in January 2006 titled Quality Review of Employment and Jobs Statistics which addressed differences between household and business survey estimates of jobs. Factors affecting the estimates; Reasons for the differences between estimates; Recommendations of the review.

Presents charts and statistics representing the labor market in Great Britain as of October 2005. Sources of labor market statistics; Economic activity and inactivity; Consumer prices and economic indicators.

Focuses on the Average Weekly Earnings indicator developed by the British Office for National Statistics in August 2005. Importance of the indicator to estimates of pay growth; Background of the creation of the Distribution of Earnings Review; Elaboration of methodology used in the Average Weekly Earnings indicator.

Presents statistical information on the job vacancies in Great Britain. Vacancies by industry; Vacancies by size of companies.

Presents statistical information on the earnings of employees in Great Britain. Average earnings index; Private sector; Public sector.

Presents statistical information on the claimant count by region in the labor market in Great Britain.

Presents statistical information on the economic activity and inactivity in the labor market in Great Britain. Spring quarters from 1996 to 2004; Three-month average.

Presents statistical information on the international comparisons of employment rates in Great Britain.

Presents statistical information on the employment of full-time, part-time and temporary workers in Great Britain. Spring quarters from 1996 to 2004; 3-month averages.

Presents statistical information on the labor market in Great Britain. Earnings and unit wage costs; Redundancies; Labor disputes.

Presents information on the updated quarterly labor market statistics in Great Britain. Public sector employment statistics; Working-age benefits data; Release of 2001 Census Standard Tables for England and Wales on Nomis database.

Presents graphs and tabular representations comparing international labor disputes in 2003. Comparison of the strike rates in Great Britain and the European Union; Strike rates in the service sector and production and construction industries; Comparison of coverage and methodology of labor disputes.

Provides information on the supplementary charts of different labor market characteristics and ethnic groupings in Great Britain included in the 2003 Labor Force Survey conducted by the Office for National Statistics. Distribution of ethnic minority population by region and local area; Employment rate by ethnic group, country of birth and nationality; Reliability of the estimates used in the survey. INSETS: Box 1 Advice to users;Related ONS ethnicity publications;Relative reliability measure - coefficient of variation.

A comprehensive guide to sources of data for measuring labour demand. This complements last month's article, which introduced the concept of labour demand with selected statistics for the UK. INSETS: Box 1 Sources of data for employee jobs estimates;Box 2 The Labour Force Survey;Box 3 The IDBR;Box 4 The New Earnings Survey and the Annual Survey of Hours... [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents statistics on claimant count on government offices by region in Great Britain as of August 2004. Yorkshire; London; Wales.

Presents a statistical information on employee claimant count from 1998 to 2003 in Great Britain. Total count by region; Overall count by age; Claimant count area statistics in parliamentary constituencies.

Analyzes the levels and distribution of jobs in the British public sector as of June 2003. Developments in public sector employment; Statistics of public sector employment by major categories in Great Britain from 1963 to 2003; Information on the Labor Force Survey which provides the measurement of the number of jobs in the economy.

Presents charts on job vacancy statistics in Great Britain from January to April 2004. Vacancies by industry; Vacancies at job centers; Vacancies at career offices.

Presents charts on unemployment claims in Great Britain from January to April 2004. Claimant count by region; Claimant count by age and duration; Claimant count statistics from counties, unitary authorities and local authority districts as of April 8, 2004.

Presents charts on unemployment statistics in Great Britain from January to March 2004. Unemployment by duration; Unemployment rates by age; Unemployment statistics from other countries.

Presents charts on employment statistics in Great Britain from January to March 2004. Number of self-employed; Statistics on part-time workers; Reasons for temporary employment.

Presents several charts on statistics on work stoppages in Great Britain as of May 2004. Number of work stoppages in progress in period from 1997 to 2004; Data on working days lost in the construction industry because of work stoppages; Causes of work stoppages.

Presents several charts on claimant count in Great Britain as of May 2004. Claimant count by region; Data on claimant count area statistics; Destination of leavers from the claimant count by duration.

Presents information on economic activity and inactivity statistics of employees in Great Britain as of May 2004. Economic activity by age; Reasons for not seeking a job; Educational status of young people from December 2003 to February 2004.

Presents several charts on unemployment statistics in Great Britain as of May 2004. Unemployment by age and duration; Unemployment rates by age; Data on unemployment rates by previous occupation.

Presents several charts and lists depicting the status of the labor market in Great Britain as of May 2004. Increase in the employment rate; Percentage of the increase in average earnings including bonuses in the three months to February 2004; Statistics of the government employment and training measures.

Presents average earnings indices for Great Britain as of February 2004. Main industrial sectors; Employee jobs by industry excluding bonuses; Employee jobs by industry including bonuses; Effect of bonus payments on the average earnings index of main industrial sectors.

Presents charts on several labour market statistics in Great Britain as of February 2004. Labour disputes; Jobseekers with disabilities; Redundancies.

Presents charts on the statistics of labor market claimant count in Great Britain as of February 2004. Claimant count by region; Claimant count by age and duration; Claimant count by counties, unitary authorities and local authority districts; Claimant count by parliamentary constituencies.

Presents charts on statistics for economic activity and inactivity in Great Britain as of February 2004. Economic activity rates by age; Economic inactivity by age; Economic inactivity reasons.

Presents charts on unemployment statistics in Great Britain as of February 2004. Unemployment by age and duration; Unemployment rates by age; Unemployment rates by previous occupation.

Presents charts on the statistics of employment in Great Britain, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland as of February 2004. Total workforce hours worked per week; Civilian labour force; Civilian employment by sector.

Presents several charts on employment statistics in Great Britain as of February 2004. Actual weekly hours of work; Workforce jobs by industry; Employment in tourism-related industries; Employment jobs by region and industry; Employment rates by age.

Presents labor market figures in Great Britain as of December 2003. Employment rate from August to October 2003; Unemployment rate; Economic activity rate among people of working age; Number of vacant jobs as of November 2003.

Provides background information on labour market data released by the Office of National Statistics in Great Britain in 2003. Sources of labour market statistics; Definition of terms; Regularly published labour statistics.

Presents statistics on employment in Great Britain as of November 2003. Number of workers with second jobs; Common reasons for working part-time; Employment levels in the country classified according to occupation.

Presents data on the labor market in Great Britain as of October 2003. Sources of labor market statistics; Definition of terms; Summary of Labor Force Survey.

Highlights labor market statistics in Great Britain, as of August 2003. Educational and economic activity status of young people; Labor market and family status of women; Proportions of men and women employed by occupation and industry.

Presents data concerning the labor market in Great Britain from 1992 to 2002. Employment and productivity; Economic activity and inactivity; Earning and unit wage cost; Vacancies.

Presents an overview of the labor market in Great Britain, as of July 2003. Rate of improvement of the market; Statistics on employment; Information on the country's unemployment rate.

Presents statistics of topical or general interest which aims to foster awareness and understanding of labor market statistics from a range of sources in Great Britain. Proportion of people who had been with the same employer for less than two years by occupation and industry; Trade union membership and coverage of collective agreements; Union density by sex, age and type of employment.

The article examines the seasonally adjusted claimant count stock series employed for labor statistics review in Great Britain. The difficulties encountered when analyzing the claimant count series through the use of raw data can be attributed to its short-term movements which are dominated by seasonal effects. There are several factors that comprise the monthly seasonally adjusted claimant count series include stocks, inflows and outflow for men and women for government office regions.

Presents updates on the labour market statistics in Great Britain as of November 2005. The first set of results for the Annual Population Survey for the period January to December 2004 are now available in a variety of ways. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) launched a publication on local labour markets on its Web site. The ONS continues its interdepartmental project focused on improving the quality of public sector employment statistics.

Presents labor market statistics in Great Britain from 1997 to July 2004. Working days lost in work stoppages by industry; Labor disputes by industry sector; Causes of work stoppages; Placements into employment of jobseekers with disabilities.

Provides information on the developments taking place as part of the continuing work of the Office of National Statistics (ONS) of Great Britain to improve labor market statistics. Information on the workplace-based denominators used to calculate regional and national claimant count rates; Overview of the content of the Labor Force Survey household data released on July 28, 2004; Details of the investigation conducted by ONS on the divergence between the measure of self-employment used in the productivity jobs series and self-employed jobs reported in the LFS.