ILCH: Index of Labour Costs per Hour (Experimental)

Experimental Official Statistics from the UK's Office for National Statistics, last updated July 2026. It measures changes in the average labour costs per hour worked, also known as the Labour Costs Index (LCI). The data is published in HTML format under the OGL-UK-3.0 license.

Use Cases

• Track wage inflation trends based on the labour cost index.
• Model business cost pressures based on changes in hourly labour costs.
• Benchmark labour costs for economic forecasting.
• Analyze the relationship between labour costs and productivity.

Strengths

• Produced by the authoritative Office for National Statistics.
• Released as Experimental Official Statistics, indicating ongoing development and transparency.
• Last updated on 2026-07-08, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Office for National Statistics

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:33:26.982028; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (implied by source agency)