The Office for Statistics Regulation wrote to Alex Lambert and Darren Morgan about ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) transformation

7 November 2022 · Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation

The letter is dated 7 November 2022. The Office for Statistics Regulation published it as Mark Pont to Alex Lambert and Darren Morgan: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) transformation; it links to 6 official records. Below are 4 passages from the letter in the regulator's own words.

What the Office for Statistics Regulation wrote

“As we have discussed with the team, this letter presents the first in a series covering our emerging findings and will lead to a decision about the continuing National Statistics status of ONS’s labour market statistics produced from the LFS.”

“Given the complexity and scale of the transformation of the LFS, we agreed to engage early and undertake a review against the Code of Practice for Statistics using a phased approach.”

“It plays a vital role in understanding changing dynamics and is a rich source of demographic data used to inform estimates of population change.”

“It is really encouraging to see that ONS is addressing these concerns through the transformation of the LFS, in addition to exploring opportunities to maximise greater use of administrative data to innovate and develop its labour market statistics.”

From Mark Pont, Office for Statistics Regulation, letter of 7 November 2022. Read the full letter.

Records the letter links to

• September (ons.gov.uk)
• ONS published the first in a series of planned quarterly updates
• early testing (ons.gov.uk)
• October 2020 (ons.gov.uk)
• May 2021 (ons.gov.uk)
• reweighted LFS estimates

Receipt