Labour Force Survey User Group
Meeting
Friday
26 November 2004
Royal Statistical
Society, London
This meeting is now
fully booked
Programme
| 09.45 |
Coffee and registration |
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| 10:10 |
Welcome and introduction
Barry Werner
and Angela Dale |
New developments at
ONS
| 10:15 |
The
LFS reweighting project and the impact on micro dataset
users
Stephen Hicks, ONS
This presentation will provide an overview of the LFS reweighting
process following the 2001 Census and illustrate the differences
between estimates derived from microdata and the interim
revised series which is used in ONS publications.
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| 10.45 |
Comparing labour
market data from the 2001 Census with the LFS
Dan Heap, ONS
An overview of differences between labour market data taken
from the 2001 Census and that from the Spring 2001 Labour
Force Survey. Consideration will be given to factors that
lead to differences between the two data sources.
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| 11.15 |
Coffee |
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| 11:45 |
An Introduction
to the Annual Population Survey (APS)
Tim Burrell, ONS
This session will provide background to the APS and its
key role in the development of the forthcoming Continuous
Population Survey (CPS). It will bring the audience up to
date with progress on the survey, which was launched in
January 2004, and provide some initial thoughts on likely
survey outputs.
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| 12:15 |
Forthcoming LFS
developments
Alex Clifton-Fearnside, ONS
An overview of current LFS developments, with specific consideration
of:
(i) using the LFS to produce a series for individual months
(ii) the development of forecasting methods to increase
the timeliness of the LFS.
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| 12:45 |
General discussion |
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| 1:00 |
Lunch |
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| 1:45 |
Outline of an
ONS data access strategy
Paul Jackson,
ONS |
Research papers based on the LFS
(1) Ethnicity
| 2:30 |
Born in Britain: how are native ethnic minorities
faring in the British labour market
D. H. Blackaby,
D.G. Leslie, P.M. Murphy, N.C. O’Leary
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| 3:00 |
Identifying the British
John MacInnes, University
of Edinburgh and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
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| 3:30 |
Break - cold drinks |
(2) Definitions of economic activity
| 3:45 |
Population at Risk Unemployment Rates
Ray Thomas, Open University
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| 4:15 |
Measuring labour market participation for ethnic minority
groups
Jo Lindley and Angela Dale, University of Manchester
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| 4:45 |
General discussion and issues |
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| 5:00 |
End
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