Labour Market and Welfare

Last updated on Friday 25 June 2021

The Labour Market and Welfare theme includes statistics measuring different aspects of work and jobs and covers people’s employment, working patterns and the types of work they do. The theme also covers any earnings and benefits they receive.

We recently commented on a range of labour market and welfare statistics.

Our systemic review of income-based poverty statistics (May 2021)
Our findings on the compliance check of labour market statistics for young people in Scotland (May 2021)
Our assessment of the personal independence payment statistics for Northern Ireland as National Statistics (May 2021)
Our review of UK benefit statistics including our assessment report of the Department and Work and Pensions’ Benefit Statistics and our findings from our compliance check of the Department for Communities’ benefits statistics summary for Northern Ireland (November 2020)

Our future plans for 2021/22 include a compliance check of Income Estimates for Small Areas produced by the Office for National Statistics and an assessment of the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency’s Pay in Northern Ireland Civil Service statistics.

Contact our regulators for this domain Elise Baseley and William Richardson for more information.

Planned Work

Project	Geography	Project Type	Timescale
Income Estimates for Small Areas (Office for National Statistics)	England and Wales	Compliance Check	April - September 2021
Personal Independence Payment statistics (Department for Communities, Northern Ireland)	Northern Ireland	Assessment	Continuing from 2020/21: Phase 2
Benefit Statistics (Department for Work and Pensions)	Great Britain	Assessment	Continuing from 2020/21: Phase 2
UK Employment and Jobs statistics (Office for National Statistics), including follow up on Compliance Checks in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland	United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland	Assessment	Continuing from 2019/20: Phase 2