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The Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March 2015: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset is based on the Quarterly Labour Force Survey, January - March 2015 (available from UK Data Archive under SN 7725) and constitutes real data which are used by government, business and other organisations. The teaching dataset is a subset which has been subjected to certain simplifications and additions for the purpose of learning and teaching. The main differences are: the teaching dataset contains a 30% random sample of the main QLFS sample aged 16 years and over; the number of variables has been reduced; a reduced user guide with codebook is provided; some variables have been recoded and their level of detail reduced for the teaching dataset. Further information is available in the study documentation (see below). For the second edition (September 2016) a new weighting variable has been added to the data and the user guide has been updated accordingly.

Main Topics:

The main topics covered are:employment status; economic activity; full/part-time work; hours worked; socio-demographics.

Simple random sample

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

The QLFS is collected by face-to-face interviews and telephone interviews, but the teaching dataset has been created by simplifying the original data.