Advanced Search Help
The advanced search facility allows you to control the results of your search to limit the number of hits returned, and arrange the results in the order you prefer. By default, all pages on the website are searched. This includes HTML pages, and PDF and Word documents. This may result in too many irrelevant hits being returned. The website is organised into three main areas for searching.
- Press Releases
- Publications
The Divisions are further divided into an area for each division, and each division can be searched separately. Each division is divided into Units or Sections. Units cannot be searched separately.
- Divisions
The Divisions are further divided into an area for each division, and each division can be searched separately. Each division is divided into Units or Sections. Units cannot be searched separately.
Press Releases are divided into a number of areas, one for each year since 1998.
Publications are divided into a number of areas, one for each main subject covered by the Department. Within each subject, publications are further subdivided into years.
Each of the advanced search fields is described below.
Search for
Enter your search term here. The search term can include Boolean operators, wildcards, etc. More information on the search term features is available in the simple search help page.
Website areas
Specify the areas of the website you wish to search in. The table below lists the areas available to limit the pages searched.
| Option | Explanation |
|---|---|
| All Documents | All pages on the site |
| Divisions and Publications | All pages on the site except Press Releases |
| Press Releases Only | Press Releases Only |
| Publications Only | Excludes Press Releases, and Divisions and Units |
| Divisions Only | Excludes Press Releases and Publications |
| Commerce, Consumers and Competition Division | Company Law Competition Policy Consumer Policy |
| Corporate Services and Economic Policy Division | Ministers' Offices and Press
Office Office of the Secretary General Finance Unit Planning Unit Consultancy Unit Personnel Unit Information Resource and Organisation Unit I.T. Unit Internal Audit Unit |
| Employment Rights and Industrial Relations Division | Employment Rights Redundancy Payments Section Labour Inspectorate International Labour Organisation (ILO) Council of Europe Employment Appeals Tribunal Insolvency Payments Section Health and Safety Policy/Liaison Section The Industrial Relations Section |
| Enterprise and Agencies Division | Enterprise and eBusiness Support
Unit, Enterprise Policy & Standards Unit, Overseas and Indigenous Industries Unit, Local Enterprise Section, Operational Programme Management Unit, Small and Medium Enterprises |
| Labour Force Division | Employment Services / Economic
Migration Policy Unit Employment And Training Strategy Unit European Social Fund Policy and Operations Section Labour Market Policy |
| Science, Technology and Intellectual Property Division | Intellectual Property Unit Office of Science & Technology |
| Competitiveness, Trade, Environment and EU Affairs Division | Environment Unit EU Affairs & Competitiveness Section Market Access Unit |
Sort by
The order in which results are sorted can be modified by specifing what criteria to use for sorting. The following table explains each of the options available.
| Option | Explanation |
|---|---|
| Relevance | When searching for a term, each page is assigned a score according to the degree of relevance with the term. |
| Last Modified Date | Chronologically sorted by the date of last modification |
| Document Title | Alphabetically sorted by the title of the page |
| Document Path | Alphabetically sorted by the URL of the page |
- Sort by Last Modified Date to see the most recently changed pages first. This is most useful when searching Press Releases.
- When searching a particular Division, sort by Document Path to group the results from each Unit within the Division together.
- When searching Publications, sort by Document Path to group the results for each subject together.
Order by
The results of the search can be returned in either ascending or descending order. Use Descending order to see the most relevant hits first.
If sorting results alphabetically (using either Document Title or Path), then use Ascending order to sort beginning from the letter A rather than Z.
Last modified: 16/04/2004
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