{ "name": "shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk Shift Work Prevalence", "title": "Shift Work Prevalence", "url": "https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/datasets/shift-work-prevalence/", "csv": "https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/datasets/shift-work-prevalence.csv", "markdown": "https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/datasets/shift-work-prevalence/index.md", "computed_at": "2026-10-22", "license": "https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/terms", "headline": "The median published figure in the Shift Work Prevalence is 22.50 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 19 to 26 percent), read 12 October 2026.", "quotes": [ "The median published figure in the Shift Work Prevalence is 22.50 percent across 2 sources' own pages (range 19 to 26 percent), read 12 October 2026.", "2 of the 7 named sources read in full publish a figure; 5 publish none, read 12 October 2026.", "The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 22.50 percent across 2)." ], "citation": "\"shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk Shift Work Prevalence\", updated 2026-10-22, https://shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk/datasets/shift-work-prevalence/.", "changed_since": { "since": "2026-09-26", "previous_median": 22.5, "delta": 0, "direction": "unchanged", "sentence": "The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 22.50 percent across 2)." }, "national": { "unit": "%", "n": 2, "median": 22.5, "min": 19, "max": 26, "p25": null, "p75": null, "mean": 22.5, "units": { "%": 2 }, "published_sources": 2, "named_sources": 8, "read_sources": 7, "not_published": 5, "published_share": 0.286 }, "by_axis": {}, "rows": [ { "source": "Greater London Authority - evening and night workers in London", "url": "https://data.london.gov.uk/blog/evening-and-night-workers-in-london/", "figure": "26%", "value": 26, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "Around 1 in 4 (26%) people working in London were E&N workers in 2022.", "source_class": "primary-government", "text_sha256": "0aafe1c0cc8aa49e0766e6645fc21df7a89003c524a8cb430b1546c5716597ab" }, { "source": "TUC - the health and safety impacts of night working", "url": "https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/health-and-safety-impacts-night-working", "figure": "2017 19%", "value": 19, "unit": "%", "vat": null, "axis": {}, "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "quote": "In 2017 19% of those in employment were engaged in shift work, 20% of males and 17% of females (ONS, 2018).", "source_class": "secondary", "text_sha256": "0ef23341a7605f010628b50921f9619089cc170f0e37d256870493a907d1d850" } ], "not_published": [ { "source": "ONS - Labour market overview, UK", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/march2026", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" }, { "source": "ONS - HOUR01 SA: actual weekly hours worked (dataset)", "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/actualweeklyhoursworkedseasonallyadjustedhour01sa", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "HSE - shift work and fatigue: common risks", "url": "https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/shift-workers.htm", "retrieved_at": "2026-10-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "HSE - health and safety statistics", "url": "https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "read in full and no accepted figure on the page" }, { "source": "TUC - 260,000 more people working at night in past five years", "url": "https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/260000-more-people-working-night-past-five-years-finds-tuc", "retrieved_at": "2026-09-12", "reason": "every candidate on the page was refused" } ], "sources": [ { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/march2026", "label": "ONS - Labour market overview, UK", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours/datasets/actualweeklyhoursworkedseasonallyadjustedhour01sa", "label": "ONS - HOUR01 SA: actual weekly hours worked (dataset)", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.hse.gov.uk/humanfactors/topics/shift-workers.htm", "label": "HSE - shift work and fatigue: common risks", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.hse.gov.uk/statistics/", "label": "HSE - health and safety statistics", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://data.london.gov.uk/blog/evening-and-night-workers-in-london/", "label": "Greater London Authority - evening and night workers in London", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.tuc.org.uk/research-analysis/reports/health-and-safety-impacts-night-working", "label": "TUC - the health and safety impacts of night working", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.tuc.org.uk/news/260000-more-people-working-night-past-five-years-finds-tuc", "label": "TUC - 260,000 more people working at night in past five years", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" }, { "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/earningsandworkinghours", "label": "ons.gov.uk", "license": "the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment" } ], "methodology": "Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2). 2 of the 7 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 5 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 1 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere. The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in % (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 53 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded. The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the shift-work and night-work counts and shares from the official series, carried release by release with their definitions attached, so a pattern page can open on a measured figure ('5 million shift workers', HSE) rather than an assertion; the derivation is the comparison the publishers do not make - the official count beside the union's own Labour Force Survey analysis and the sub-national reading, each labelled with whose number it is, and the change over time computed on one consistent definition.", "embed": "

22.50 percent

median published figure, Shift Work Prevalence, across 2 sources, read 12 October 2026

Source: shiftpatterngenerator.co.uk Shift Work Prevalence
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