This release is categorised as a CSO Frontier Series Output. Particular care must be taken when interpreting the statistics in this release as it may use new methods which are under development and/or data sources which may be incomplete, for example new administrative data sources.
Please note the data contained within this release cannot be compared directly with other measures of vacancy including those available from organisations outside the CSO. These measures may have distinct definitions of vacancy and also different methods of collecting their data. For further information on the data sources, linking procedures, and limitations of this release, see the Background Notes section.
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