Official statistics announcement

Comparison of labour market data sources

This article compares the strengths and weaknesses of the main data sources we use to produce the labour market figures, including the advantages of new administrative data sources and limitations of some of our published figures.

• From: Office for National Statistics
• Published: 19 November 2020
• Last updated: 3 December 2020 — See all updates

• Release date: 11 December 2020 9:30am (confirmed)

The release date has been changed

• Previous date: 15 December 2020 9:30am
• Reason for change: Following some late feedback that we’d like to review, the publication date was changed to allow for changes and further quality assurance to be made.

These statistics will be released on 11 December 2020 9:30am