Table 1: February to April 2023 headline measures and changes

Estimates of rates will, however, be robust. Therefore, levels estimates may be under- or over-estimating the true values and should be used with caution. The total population used for the LFS therefore does not take into account any changes in migration, birth rates, death rates and so on since June 2021. The population totals used for the latest LFS estimates use projected growth rates from Real Time Information (RTI) data for EU and non-EU populations based on 2021 patterns. Further information is available in our Impact of reweighting on Labour Force Survey key indicators, UK: 2022 article. As a result, our new Labour Force Survey weighting methodology was introduced in July 2021. However, it was acknowledged that further improvement work was required to deal with the increase in non-response from those with a non-UK country of birth or nationality. This introduced an increased non-response bias to the survey, which was partially mitigated by the introduction of housing tenure-based weights into the survey in October 2020, as detailed in our Coronavirus and its impact on the Labour Force Survey article. Latest Labour Force Survey (LFS) estimates are based on interviews that took place from February to April 2023.īecause of coronavirus (COVID-19) and the suspension of face-to-face interviewing, we had to make operational changes to the LFS, which moved to a by-telephone approach. Coronavirus (COVID-19) and measuring the labour market

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