Earnings and Labour Market Information

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Earnings and Labour Market Information ONS
Sources

• David McPhee

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Two Main Sources

• Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) -
  Annual survey of employers carried out in April
  each year
• Labour Force Survey (LFS) Continuous household
  survey

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ASHE

• Employer survey covering approximately 0.8 of
  all employee jobs (previously 1)
• Basic characteristics of employees available such
  as age, gender, occupation, industry ft/pt split
• Detailed information on earnings including basic
  pay, overtime pay, bonus pay, incentive pay etc.

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ASHE

• Data readily available at Local Authority level
• Possible to create other geographies using
  microdata
• Also possible to look at ad hoc groups using
  microdata
• Some (long term) plans to collect qualifications
  data from employers

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LFS/APS

• Continuous household survey since 1992
• SG fund a boost to the sample to make the sample
  size 23,000 households a year
• LFS contains data on economic activity, family
  background, occupation, industry, earnings,
  health issues, qualifications, benefits etc.

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LFS/APS

• Earnings information not considered as accurate
  as ASHE
• Allows interesting analysis of earnings by other
  characteristics
• Able to create ad hoc geographies and groups
  using microdata

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Access to data

• National Statistics Website www.statistics.gov.u
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• Scottish Government website www.scotland.gov.uk
• NOMIS www.nomisweb.co.uk
• Email Labour Market statistics branch
  labour-market.statistics_at_scotland.gsi.gov.uk

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Questions

• How closely linked do you see labour market
  statistics and poverty statistics?
• Can the ASHE be used to inform more detailed
  geographic poverty statistics?
• Can a combination of LFS and ASHE data help to
  inform poverty issues?
• What geographic levels are most important?
• Are there standard outputs from the LFS and ASHE
  that should be regularly published?