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This meeting, organised by the Economic and Social Data Service, will provide a forum for data users and producers to meet and discuss new developments and exchange information about the Labour Force Survey/Annual Population Survey.

Programme

10.00	Coffee and registration

10.25	Welcome

10.30	LFS and APS Update: Transition to the new Standard Industrial Classification (SIC 2007) and questionnaire changes Marilyn Thomas, Office for National Statistics (ONS)

11.00	The impact of reweighting on APS microdata Marilyn Thomas, ONS

11.30	Discussion

11.45	Coffee

12.00	Non-response bias and its effects on LFS results: some initial estimates Geoff Bright, ONS

12.30	ESDS Resources Anthony Rafferty, ESDS Government

1.00	Lunch

1.45	Estimating inter-censuses fertility rates by ethnic and religious groups using the LFS and the Own-Child Method Sylvie Dubuc, University of Oxford

2.15	Is ethnicity or religion more important in explaining inequalities in the labour market? Jean Martin, University of Oxford

2.45	Comfort break

3.00	Crossing the Tracks? Trends in the training of male and female workers in Great Britain Melanie Jones, Swansea University

3.30	Using the LFS for immigration based indicators and occupation based measures of shortage Jonathan Wadsworth, Royal Holloway College, University of London

4.00	Discussion

4.15	End

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