Nikki Brownlie
A NATIONAL STATISTICS PUBLICATION
About this publication
The statistics in this publication are National Statistics. This means they comply with the UK Statistics Authority standards. The UK Statistics Authority is an independent body operating at arm's length from government as a non-ministerial department, directly accountable to Parliament. It was established on 1 April 2008 by the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007. For more information about National Statistics please go to:
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About Labour Market Analysis
Labour Market Analysis is a multi-disciplinary team of economists, social researchers and statisticians based in the Labour Market Directorate of the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS). The statisticians in the team are members of the Government Statistical Service and take responsibility for producing this National Statistics Trade Union Membership publication. The role of the team is to provide the evidence base for good policy making in employment relations, labour market and equality and discrimination at work. We do this through: Conducting periodic benchmark surveys Commissioning external research reports Conducting in-house research and analysis Assessing the regulatory impact of new employment laws Monitoring and evaluating the impact of government policies
We publicly disseminate the results of this research through the BIS Employment Relations Research Series and other publications. For further details of the team’s work, including PDF versions of all our publications, please see our web pages at: http://www.bis.gov.uk/policies/employment-matters/research Published in April 2012 by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills. URN 12/P77 © Crown