Nearly one million workers in Britain’s jobs market have been “lost” because of poor and unreliable official data and the rate of UK unemployment and inactivity may have been overstated, a think tank has claimed.
Economists at the Resolution Foundation have accused the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of misrepresenting trends in the jobs sector through inaccurate figures from its Labour Force Survey (LFS), which they say has underestimated growth in employment by 930,000 workers since 2019.
