The papers that informed this meeting are attached as a PDF document for transparency. If you would like an accessible version of the attached papers, please contact us at authority.enquiries@statistics.gov.uk
The papers that informed this meeting are attached as a PDF document for transparency. If you would like an accessible version of the attached papers, please contact us at authority.enquiries@statistics.gov.uk
1. Background The Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS) is one of the most important ONS initiatives currently underway. This importance has increased with concerns over bias and the impact of decreasing response rates in the Labour Force Survey (LFS), which the TLFS is meant to replace. In this context, we have been approached by the […]
1. Background The Labour Force Survey (LFS) is ONS’s premier social survey. However, in common with many similar social surveys round the world, particularly in countries without a legal compulsion for households to respond, the response rate to the LFS has been falling steadily since the turn of the century. The rate of this decline […]
The papers that informed this meeting are attached as a PDF document for transparency. If you would like an accessible version of the attached papers, please contact us at authority.enquiries@statistics.gov.uk
The purpose of this note is to provide the Methodological Assurance Review Panel (MARP) and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) with a stocktake of emerging issues in our review of the methodology underpinning the Transformed Labour Force Survey (TLFS) as well as the current ability of the TLFS to be a viable replacement for […]
This report covers the work of the Methodological Assurance Review Panel (MARP) from 1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024. In that period, the panel met 4 times and considered 10 papers detailing methodologies across the Office for National Statistics (ONS) work areas, with the Future of Population and Migration Statistics (FPMS) being a key […]