Release: Labour Market Statistics, March 2015
Contact
Richard Clegg
Labour Market Division
Telephone: +44 (0)1633 455400 Twitter: @ONSRichardClegg
Categories: Labour Market, People in Work, People not in Work, Employment, Employment Type, Job Statistics, Workforce Jobs, Jobs, Vacancies, Vacancies by Industry, Vacancies by Size of Enterprise, Earnings, Weekly Earnings, Bonus Earnings, Basic Pay, Hours of Work, Average Hours, Total Hours, Usual Hours, Weekly Hours, Labour Disputes, Days Lost Due to Industrial Action, Claimant Count, Economic Inactivity, Redundancies, Unemployment, Claimant Count Flows, Claimant Count Rates, Claimant Count by Age, Claimant Count by Duration of Claim, Claimant Count by Sex, Jobseeker's Allowance, Economic Inactivity by Age, Economic Inactivity by Reason, Economic Inactivity by Sex, Redundancies by Industry, Redundancies by Rate and Level, Long Term Unemployment, Unemployment Rates, Unemployment by Age, Unemployment by Duration, Unemployment by Sex
Frequency of release: Monthly
Language: English
Geographical coverage: UK
Geographical breakdown: UK
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The main findings of this release are that employment continued to rise and unemployment continued to fall. These changes continue the general direction of movement since late 2011/early 2012.
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For the three months ending January 2015, 73.3% of people aged from 16 to 64 were in work, up from 72.1% for a year earlier.
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The unemployment rate for the three months ending January 2015 was 5.7%, down from 7.2% for a year earlier.
In this release
- Statistical bulletin: UK Labour Market, March 2015
- Employment up 143,000 compared with the previous quarter
- Reconciliation of Estimates of Jobs, March 2015
- Single Month Labour Force Survey Estimates, March 2015 (Not Designated as National Statistics)
- Time Series Dataset: Average Weekly Earnings
- Time Series Dataset: Claimant Count and Vacancies
- Time Series Dataset: Labour Market Statistics
- Reference tables (65)
This release contains estimates of labour market statistics (including employment, unemployment and economic inactivity) for the United Kingdom published on 18 March 2015. There is a pdf version of the Statistical Bulletin which includes summary data tables.
Other regularly published labour market releases
Regional Labour Market statistics (*)
Young People who were Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET)
Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings
Working and Workless Households
Business Register and Employment Survey (BRES)
(*) Regional and local area statistics are available at NOMIS®
Recently published reports on labour market topics
Contracts with no guaranteed hours (25 February 2015)
Families in the Labour Market (9 December 2014)
Underemployment and overemployment in the UK (25 November 2014)
Bonus payments in Great Britain (29 August 2014)
Self-employed workers in the UK (20 August 2014)
Other useful information
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; and
- 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.
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