QLS: Quarterly UK Armed Forces and Civilian Personnel Location Statistics

Quarterly statistics on the location of UK Regular Armed Forces and civilian personnel, published by the Ministry of Defence. The dataset is designated as Official Statistics not designated as National Statistics and is published under the Open Government Licence (OGL-UK-3.0). Release announcements moved from the Statistics Publication Hub to the Defence Analytical Services and Advice (DASA) website from April 2013.

Use Cases

• Analyzing regional distribution of military personnel based on quarterly location statistics.
• Tracking temporal changes in UK defence workforce composition based on the quarterly publication schedule.
• Modeling public sector employment patterns based on Ministry of Defence official statistics.

Strengths

• Published quarterly, providing regular temporal snapshots.
• Designated as Official Statistics by the UK Ministry of Defence.
• Released under the permissive OGL-UK-3.0 licence.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Ministry of Defence (UK)

Collection Method

Likely contains administrative records from defence personnel systems.

Time Range

Data is published quarterly; coverage likely starts before April 2013.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:41.295753; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom