Short-Term Employment Surveys, 2020-2021: Secure Access

<div>The<span style="font-style: italic;"> Short-Term Employment Surveys</span> (STES) are three statutory, quarterly surveys of private sector businesses. The surveys ask businesses for their number of employees (male/female/full-time/part-time) on a specified date (the second or third Friday of March, June, September or December). Online questionnaires are sent to a sample of approximately 37,000 businesses each quarter. The combined surveys cover all sectors of the private sector economy and all industries in England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain) with the exception of 'agriculture, forestry and fishing' and 'private households'. Northern Ireland businesses are not approached via STES. The STES data feeds into the quarterly <a href="https://www.ons.gov.uk/search?q=workforce+jobs" target="_blank">UK Workforce Jobs</a> estimates published by the Office for National Statistics.<br><br><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Linking to other business studies</span></div><div>These data contain Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR) reference numbers. These are anonymous but unique reference numbers assigned to business organisations. Their inclusion allows researchers to combine different business survey sources together. Researchers may consider applying for other business data to assist their research.</div></div><div><br></div>

短期就业调查（Short-Term Employment Surveys, STES）是三项法定的季度私营企业调研。该调研向企业询问其在指定日期（每年3月、6月、9月或12月的第二个或第三个周五）的雇员人数，按男性、女性、全职、兼职四类分别统计。每季度会向约37000家企业组成的样本群体发送在线问卷。合并后的调研覆盖大不列颠（英格兰、苏格兰及威尔士）境内私营经济的所有部门与全行业，但排除“农业、林业和渔业”及“私人家庭”领域，北爱尔兰企业未被纳入STES调研范围。STES的数据将被用于英国国家统计局（Office for National Statistics）发布的季度《英国劳动力就业情况》（UK Workforce Jobs）估算报告。

与其他商业研究的关联
本数据集包含跨部门商业登记册（Inter-Departmental Business Register, IDBR）参考编号。此类编号为匿名且唯一的企业组织标识，纳入该编号可支持研究者对不同商业调研数据源进行整合。研究者可根据研究需求申请其他商业数据以辅助研究工作。