Estimates of the number of people on contracts with no guaranteed weekly hours. The data is produced by the Office for National Statistics and designated as Experimental Official Statistics. The dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in non-guaranteed hour employment based on the estimated counts.
- Model the prevalence of zero-hours contracts for labor market research.
- Inform policy development on worker rights and contract regulations based on official statistics.
Strengths
- Produced by the Office for National Statistics, a national statistical institute.
- Designated as Experimental Official Statistics, indicating ongoing development and transparency.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data.
Provenance
- Source
- Office for National Statistics
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:27.523369; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United Kingdom