Methodological Assurance Review Panel
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Methodological Assurance Review Panel minutes: 1 July 2025
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
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Methodological Assurance Review Panel minutes: 20 February 2025
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
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Methodological Assurance Review Panel’s comments on proposals for the design of the Transformed Labour Force Survey
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 […]
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Methodological Assurance Review Panel’s comments on Labour Force Survey Recovery Plan
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 […]
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Methodological Assurance Review Panel minutes: 12 November 2024
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
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Labour Market Surveys Academic Review: Report to the Methodological Assurance Review Panel
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 […]