Low Pay (Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE))

Time

1998 - On-going (Annual)

The ASHE replaced the New Earnings Survey (NES) which was administered by the ONS since the 1970s.

Dataset Quality

Primary weaknesses identified by ONS include: lack of personal demographic data, timing and periodicity, no coverage of self employed and quality of estimates and low levels of disaggregation can be poor.

Estimates on the levels and distribution of earnings and hours for employees in the UK. Estimates are available for a variety of breakdowns by age groups, gender, industry, occupation, public/private sectors and a range of geographies. ASHE also provides estimates for employee earnings by gender and full-time/part-time workers.

Dataset Access and Use

Free to download from the ONS

Geography

Government office regions including Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and parliamentary constituency