List of outstanding recommendations
- To ensure that the whole breadth of LFS and APS users can prepare for the change, ONS should publish a plan outlining broader user engagement and communication as it nears the transition.
- To ensure that the public can have confidence in using the statistics to make decisions and take actions, ONS should:
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- Release a comprehensive variable list for TLFS Core and Plus surveys, which should include an explanation of how the variables harmonise with LFS variables, and the frequency and coverage of each variable.
- Publish an impact analysis on data discontinuities, explaining how TLFS Core estimates compare to the LFS estimates, the expected effects on time series and guidance for interpretation.
- Make these documents easily accessible and signpost them from the TLFS landing page.
3. To support APS users, ONS should continue to engage more fully with them to understand critical user needs and inform its future planning.
4. To inform its quality assurance approach and promote public confidence in the data, ONS should publish its analyses on employment-related non-response and the LFS/TLFS Cross-over Survey, once they have concluded.
5. To understand mode effects and inform the appropriate use of these statistics, ONS should share findings from the Cross-over Survey comparing LFS and TLFS Core responses, once the analysis has concluded.
6. To ensure users can easily access the information needed to enable them to appropriately use these statistics, ONS should ensure clear navigation between the TLFS landing page and the labour market bulletins.
7. To ensure that the public can have confidence in using the TLFS statistics to make decisions and take actions, ONS should clarify when it expects to finalise and publish its approach to TLFS weighting.
8. To support trust in the statistics, and their acceptability amongst users, ONS should publish information about the level of quality of each success measure before transition.
9. To improve user confidence, ONS should publish more detail about the delivery of coherent transformed UK labour market estimates, once the plans have been finalised.