Short-Term Employment Surveys, 2020-2025: 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.<br><br><span style="font-style: italic;">Latest edition information</span><p class="MsoNormal">For the sixteenth edition (April 2026), September 2025
data for the Construction, Monthly Business, and Quarterly Business Surveys
have been added, and June 2025 data for these surveys have been updated.<span style="font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div>