Question follow-through · 11774
Labour Force Survey
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) utility of the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 29 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 31 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 4 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
29 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent assessment she has made of the (a) accuracy and (b) utility of the Office for National Statistics Labour Force Survey.
31 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
4 Nov 2024
Answer published
Data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) remains subject to a number of quality concerns following a fall in response rates, which fell from 47.9% in June to August 2013 to 14.6% in June to August 2023. The ONS is undertaking work to address these quality ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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