Introduction
On Tuesday 15th October 2024, the Office of National Statistics (ONS) released the latest regional labour market data, most of which covered the three-month period of June to August 2024.
The release is the headline summary of the most up to date statistics about the labour market in the nine broad English regions, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. It accompanies a more detailed UK labour market summary. The North East region in this release includes the North East and Tees Valley combined authority areas.
Headline regional labour market rates in the release are based on responses to the ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS). However, falling response rates mean that statistics from this source have become more volatile and are currently described as “official statistics in development” rather than National Statistics. Because of this, the regional labour market release includes additional information from administrative data.