Households and the labour market for local areas
AbstractThe latest annual Statistical Bulletin on 'Work and worklessness among households' was published by the Office
for National Statistics on 26 August 2009. It gives information about working-age households, and about the adults and
children living in them, by household economic activity status. It includes estimates of workless working-age
households, and the adults and children living in them, by household type, region, and ethnicity. This article, using the
Annual Population Survey, considers more detailed geographical breakdowns of the same information. Detailed tables
reporting the sub-regional data can be found in an online version of this article which is available at: www.statistics.
gov.uk/articles/nojournal/householdslabourmarket-local-areas.pdf.
Quality measures
of household
labour market
indicators
AbstractThis article considers the reliability of
the two main survey sources for key
household labour market indicators, using
standard errors to inform users on the
accuracy of regular household analysis.
It shows the level of detail that provides
reliable analysis for different geographies.
It will also consider when to use the
Annual Population Survey (APS) instead
of the Labour Force Survey (LFS, see ONS
2009a).
Annual Population
Survey household
data sets
Aims to raise awareness of the above which allow for production of local area family and household labour market statisticThe Offi ce for National Statistics has
developed new annual local area data
sets called the Annual Population Survey
(APS) household data sets. They allow
for production of family and household
labour market statistics at local areas and
for small subgroups of the population
across the UK.
The aim of this article is to raise
awareness of the APS household data
sets. The information is presented in two
sections: the initial section describes the
key features of the APS household data
sets, while the second section presents
some key results from the data to
illustrate the type of analysis that can be
produced.
