Overview
Given recent societal and policy changes, the UK faces an increased need to know how the world of work has changed. The overarching aim of the Skills and Employment Survey 2024 (SES2024) is to collect robust survey data on the skills and employment experiences of people aged 20-65 working in the UK in 2024. SES2024 will produce a valuable and unique addition to the social science data resource infrastructure.
In an innovation for the series, the 2024 data were collected in two ways: just over 2,800 interviews were conducted face-to-face (F2F), while an additional 2,650 interviews were carried out online. Data collected F2F will be comparable with those gathered from earlier surveys, allowing researchers to measure how the labour market has changed since 2017. This includes the impact that recent changes – such as Covid-19, Brexit and the cost of living crisis – and long-term trends – such as increasing digitalisation, low and stagnating productivity growth, and an ageing population – are having on the working lives of people living in Britain.