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The main issues of UK employment data are carried out by statistical agency attention after sample size for an estimate “, according to emails obtained at financial period.
Richard Doys, Deputy Chief Economist SA Office for National StatisticsWarned by an email on October 2023 with “small and falling merit” to maintain an industry with an industry with an industrial (D) through the size of the size.
Senior numbers on the ons, released in response to a ft information requested by ft, mainly a warning to the president Sir Ian Diamond on October 2023, before the agency Took the Publication of the Key Labor Market Statestics with a day of notice.
Diamond was told The House of Commons Treasury Pelect Committee last month onteg October 17 2023 expression is the first time he knows economic surates such as unemployment rate.
At 2023 emails, Heys speak a new ons’ development survey – “Transformed” Labor Force Survey (TLF
“There is little and falling merit to keep LFS and the important point if TLFs are perfect, if it is obvious above LFS,” heys writes on October 12, 2023.
“As a person who sees one of their statistics progressing 30% because the LFS survey industry has only crushed only five individuals… He thinks we may have been there from my sight,” he added.
Email does not specify which data is affected, but it is shown that acknowledgments talk about one of the detailed industry statistics published in unemployment numbers.
Heys also defined how ons officials need to present Diamond issues. “Kinahanglan nga mag-amping kita nga positibo apan dili Panglossian. Ang kalidad sa datos ug feedback sa stakeholder dili mga isyu nga naigo sa SID (Sir Ian Diamond) nga adunay ug kini hinungdanon nga dili kami gusto nga kita (mga) nga dili kami gusto, “ingon niya sa email.
Writing letter provides a sharp mind to make the beleaguered agency decision, under the fire from politicians for “Dodgy Statistics” that leaves the policies of “Top Blind Spots”.
Ons’ LFS began to be consumed during the Covid-19 pandemic when pressed ons to move from in-person to telephone interviews. At the end of 2023, the survey rate rate drives the Less than 15 percent.
Despite plans to switch an online-first tlfs on March 2024, “Systematically” under-investment and “recurring-difference – There is a reason to delay the project, according to an ons internal review.
Employment estimates are still based on the wrong original survey and the TLFS transfer is not expected until 2026.
The ons presentation slides from October 2023 highlighted “nervous” on key stakeholds about transfer of tlfs shortly, discussing concerns about data quality.
Ons are not commented.