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8 July 2021

ONS blog - Carry that weight: Reducing the effects of COVID-19 on the Labour Force Survey

The pandemic affected how we collected our surveys, and in some cases created bias in the results. Jonathan Athow explains how the upcoming reweighting of the Labour Force Survey to take better account of these shifts will affect our employment and unemployment figures.

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