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Labour Market Information Lesson Plan 3 - Using Spreadsheets

Looking at statistics to identify trends in the market. This activity for careers involves using spreadsheets of data to find out more about labour markets and employment patterns across the UK. This exercise will help students understand how employment data is recorded, and how it can help with careers decisions.
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Connect the Learning

This activity involves you using spreadsheets of data to find out more about employment patterns across the UK. You should be familiar with spreadsheets from ICT and maths.

The Big Picture

This exercise will help you understand how employment data is recorded, and how it can help you with your careers decisions. It will help you to understand the sources of information that exist to help you make good careers decisions.

Learning Outcomes

Economic wellbeing:

3 Develop awareness of the extent and diversity of opportunities in learning and work.

Task 1

Investigate the national employment figures using official data.

Open the spreadsheet “Labour force survey (LFS) Headline Indicators” which you can find at https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/Default.asp (click on the link ‘Regional and National’ in the summary statistics and the select Great Britain from the drop down menu).

Go to the tab that says “national”. This gives the figures for the whole of the UK. Using the data on the spreadsheet, find the answers to the following questions:...