Quarterly Labour Force Survey, December 1996 - February 1997 : Local Area Data

From 1992 until August 1997, the data covered Great Britain, and from September 1997 data from Northern Ireland were added. The <i>Local Area Data</i> were also available as an annual database between 1994-1995 and 1999-2000, for LADs at individual level, but these are no longer produced.<br> <br> <b>LFS move from seasonal to calendar quarters</b><br> In accordance with EU regulations, the LFS moved from seasonal (spring, summer, autumn, winter) quarters to calendar quarters (January-March, April-June, July-September, October-December) in 2006.

The last seasonal <i>Local Area Data</i> dataset issued was the <i>Quarterly Labour Force Survey, December 2005 - February, 2006: Local Area Data</i> (SN 5392), and the first calendar quarter dataset was the <i>Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March, 2006: Local Area Data</i> (SN 5393). Users should note that there is some overlap between these two datasets. Further information on the seasonal to calendar quarter change and its impact on LFS data may be found in the following online article:<br> Madouros, V. (2006) <i>Impact of the switch from seasonal to calendar quarters in the Labour Force Survey</i>, London: ONS.<br> <br> <b>LFS Documentation</b><br> The User Guides available with the UK Data Archive's LFS studies are those available at the time of deposit.

Users can access the updated guides online via the ONS <a href="ons.gov.uk/ons/guide-method/method-quality/specific/labour-market/labour-market-statistics/index.html" title="Labour Force Survey User Guide">LFS User Guide</a> pages.<br>