UK Flexible Parental Leave Impact Assessment Data from Modern Workplaces Consultation

Data from the UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy supports the impact assessment for extending flexible parental leave. The analysis likely contains time-series and survey data from sources like the Labour Force Survey and Maternity and Paternity rights surveys. This dataset was last updated on 2026-07-08 and is licensed under OGL-UK-3.0.

Use Cases

• Modeling the economic impact of flexible parental leave based on time-series labor data mentioned in the description
• Analyzing trends in parental leave uptake based on survey data referenced in the description
• Assessing policy effects on employer flexibility and father involvement as described in the consultation aims

Strengths

• Data is sourced from official UK government surveys and time-series datasets like the Labour Force Survey
• Analysis supports a specific policy consultation (Modern workplaces, URN 11/699)
• Available in multiple file formats including CSV and PDF

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 temporal and geographic bias inherent to UK-specific sources

Provenance

Source

Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Collection Method

Analysis of time-series and regular survey datasets as described in the impact assessment

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:17.548982; freshness should be verified

Geography

United Kingdom