Select Committee on Education and Employment Appendices to the Minutes of Evidence

Annex 1

Correlation coefficients for relationships between changes in full-time employment, claimant unemployment, long-term unemployment and inactivity

CORRELATIONS

	% change in full-time employment 1991-97	% change in unemployment 1991-97	% change in long-term unemployment 1991-97	% change in inactive 1992-97
Pearson correlation	1.000	-.3391	.1611	-.038
Sig. (2-tailed)	—	.000	.002	.585
N	367	367	367	207
Pearson correlation	-.3391	1.000	.4231	.059
Sig. (2-tailed)	.000	—	.000	.401
N	367	367	367	207
Pearson correlation	.1611	.4231	1.000	-.118
Sig. (2-tailed)	.002	.000	—	.091
N	367	367	367	207
Pearson correlation	-.038	.059	-.118	1.000
Sig. (2-tailed)	.585	.401	.091	—
N	207	207	207	207

  Note: 1 Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).

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Prepared 18 May 2000