Estimates of full-time and part-time employees working patterns from the Labour Force Survey
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Number and percentage of employees in the UK in Q2 2025 by their working pattern.
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Data presented in this publication is based on analysis of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Labour Force Survey (LFS) for Quarter 2 2025 (interviews taking place from April to June 2025).
The data provides estimates of the number and percentage of employees in the UK aged 16-64 with a work pattern that is weekday only or includes weekends. This is broken down by full-time and part-time employees.
For headline data comparisons, the five mutually exclusive categories for working patterns have been collapsed into two broader groups as follows:
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