UK Data Release Notes

2021.2

2021.1

Occupation Replacement Rates

We have updated the occupation replacement rates:

• New rates are derived from
  Working Futures 2017-2027: Long-run labour market and skills
  projections for the UK.
• The new rates are less detailed, covering just the national level;
  whereas the old rates provided NUTS1-level detail

Earnings Unsuppression Improvements
We have improved our ASHE earnings unsuppression methodology. First, for
suppressed values, we now use disclosed values from other years as seed
values when estimating both mean and percentile earnings. This results in
earnings estimates that are more consistent year-to-year. Second, we now
adjust either the mean or the percentiles so that they are consistent with
each other (i.e. our published mean falls within the range of possible means
given the percentiles). Finally, wages were not allowed to drop below the
historic lowest minimum wage (i.e. apprentice minimum wage).

DEFRA Bug
We fixed a small bug in the 2020.1 datarun where we used data for “Farmers,
partners, directors, and spouses full time” instead of “Total labour” when
disaggregating English agriculture industry employment from NUTS1 to LAU1.
This resulted in a slightly different distribution of industry employment
for NUTS3 and LAU1 areas than if “Total labour” were used.

2020.1

Geography Update

We have updated out geography classification. There are several aspect to
this change:

• We changed the codes used to represent the LAU1 regions from the
  now-defunct Standard Names and Codes (SNAC) 4-character codes to the
  current standard used by the ONS: Government Statistical Service (GSS)
  9-character codes.
• We updated the NUTS3 portion of the classification from NUTS 2006 to
  NUTS 2013 definition. All NUTS1 codes remain the same and a number of
  NUTS3 codes were changed or added. Note that due to incompatibilities
  between Scottish NUTS3 and LAU1 regions, we have replaced the Scottish
  NUTS3 regions with a single NUTS3 region for each underlying LAU1
  region.
• The classification now includes Northern Ireland. Previously, our data
  only covered Great Britain (England, Wales, and Scotland). The codes for
  the United Kingdom, Great Britain, England, Wales, Scotland, and
  Northern Ireland have also use GSS codes.

Add Northern Ireland Self-Employment Data

The Northern Ireland Census and Business Register and Employment Survey do
not cover industry self-employment data. We estimate Northern Ireland
self-employment by multiplying the ratio of self-employed to employed
persons in Wales by Northern Ireland employment.

2019.1

Additional Industry Detail
Emsi industry data now includes detail for the Finance, Insurance, and
Public Administration industries. Previously, the three and four-digit
industry codes detail were aggregated together as a single three or
four-digit code. Now, those industries are broken out in the following
standard SIC 2007 codes:64 – Financial service activities, except insurance
and pension funding 641 – Monetary intermediation 6411 – Central banking
6419 – Other monetary intermediation 642 – Activities of holding companies
6420 – Activities of holding companies 643 – Trusts, funds and similar
financial entities 6430 – Trusts, funds and similar financial entities 649 –
Other financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding
6491 – Financial leasing 6492 – Other credit granting 6499 – Other financial
service activities, except insurance and pension funding, n.e.c.65 –
Insurance, reinsurance and pension funding, except compulsory social
security 651 – Insurance 6511 – Life insurance 6512 – Non-life insurance 652
– Reinsurance 6520 – Reinsurance 653 – Pension funding 6530 – Pension
funding66 – Activities auxiliary to financial services and insurance
activities 661 – Activities auxiliary to financial services, except
insurance and pension funding 6611 – Administration of financial markets
6612 – Security and commodity contracts brokerage 6619 – Other activities
auxiliary to financial services, except insurance and pension funding 662 –
Activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding 6621 – Risk and damage
evaluation 6622 – Activities of insurance agents and brokers 6629 – Other
activities auxiliary to insurance and pension funding 663 – Fund management
activities 6630 – Fund management activities84 – Public administration and
defence; compulsory social security 841 – Administration of the State and
the economic and social policy of the community 8411 – General public
administration activities 8412 – Regulation of the activities of providing
health care, education, cultural services and other social services,
excluding social security 8413 – Regulation of and contribution to more
efficient operation of businesses 842 – Provision of services to the
community as a whole 8421 – Foreign affairs 8422 – Defence activities 8423 –
Justice and judicial activities 8424 – Public order and safety activities
8425 – Fire service activities 843 – Compulsory social security activities
8430 – Compulsory social security activities
Corrected Scottish Demographics
National Records of Scotland identified an error in the Scottish mid-year
population estimates for 2002 to 2010 affecting the age distribution of
older age groups which made the 90+ population too small and the population
of those aged 81 to 89 too large. Corrected population estimates were
published on 25 September 2018 and Emsi has updated our population
demographics data to include this fix. Further information on the error can
be found
here.

2018.1

Removed Working Futures
The UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the organization that published
Working Futures projections, closed in March 2017. Because Working Futures
projections will no longer be updated and continuing to adjust to them
limited the length of Emsi’s projection, we have removed the adjustment to
Working Futures. Projections are now 10 years from the latest BRES release.