It combines results from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the English, Welsh and Scottish Labour Force Survey boosts which are funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), the Welsh Government and the Scottish Government.
Since then, APS data has been published quarterly but with each dataset relating to a whole year.
[2] In 2007, the APS and the LFS data were reweighted by the ONS, now using population estimates for 2007–2008.
The key feature of the APS is its emphasis on relatively small geographic areas, providing information on selected social and socio-economic variables between the 10-yearly censuses.
Some of the topics included in the APS are, for example, education, health, employment and ethnicity.