Programme for joint OSS/LMSUG meeting on Labour Market Statistics -
1400-1730 Thursday 18th May 2000. Royal Statistical Society, 12 Errol Street
London EC1Y 8LX. No need to book, but you are advised to get a local map
if your have not been to the RSS before. Tea/coffee, etc. at 1330 and 1540.
1400 hrs prompt. David Webster (Glasgow City Council) ONS statistics give
a confusing, contradictory, and often incorrect picture of the local
geography of unemployment. But if the correct figures are used a consistent
picture emerges.
Ray Thomas (Open University) Long term unemployment statistics and
workforce statistics for local areas mislead because they fail to identify
the population at risk. The cultural division between
demographers/epidemiologist and statisticians/the ONS needs to be overcome.
Marta Haworth (ONS) Comparability in UK unemployment statistics. ONS
Labour Market Statistics were improved 1998. User feedback received in the
1999 review have led to reconciliation of indicators from different data
sources, including those relating to unemployment.
1540 hrs Tea break
1600 hrs. Tricia Williams (ONS) Developments in small area Labour Market
Statistics since April 1998 and the current work programme.
Nigel Stuttard (ONS) Problems in measuring low pay from survey data. The
New Earnings Survey and the Labour Force Survey are the primary sources of
information for this purpose, but ONS continues to investigate how they can
be better used.
Gabrielle Cox (Greater Manchester Low Pay Unit) Jobcentre vacancy data
provide a useful way of mapping what is happening in the low-pay labour
market providing light on the impact of the minimum wage and welfare-to-work
issues..
Alois Van Bastalaer (Eurostat) The proposed continuous LFS specifies a
common reference period and weighting procedure. There is a need for
common interpretation, greater harmonisation and implementation of the
operational definitions adopted.
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