The database presents information on all stoppages of work officially recorded by the Office for National Statistics since 1966. The series was formerly known as <i>Industrial Stoppages Data</i> and was the responsibility of the Employment Department. The title changed to <i>Labour Disputes in the UK</i> in 1992 and the Office for National Statistics took over responsibility when the Employment Department was abolished in 1995. For each dispute, the following information is available: region; industry (coded to SIC 1992); number of workers involved; occupations involved; number of working days lost; the start and end date of the dispute; the duration of the stoppage; the cause of the stoppage; sympathetic action; official or other; total number of employees at the establishment (if known).