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Table 2: Employment rates and the percentages of people working by gender United Kingdom, seasonally adjusted | |||||||||
Percentage | |||||||||
All persons | Men | Women | |||||||
Three months ending December each year | All( 1,2) | Full-time( 3,4) | Part-time( 3,4) | All( 1,2) | Full-time( 3,4) | Part-time( 3,4) | All( 1,2) | Full-time( 3,4) | Part-time( 3,4) |
(1) In employment as a percentage of all persons of working age which includes men aged 16-64 and women 16-59. (2) Includes those who did not state whether they worked full or part-time. (3) Full and part-time as a percentage of all in employment. (4) Full and part-time includes people aged 16 and over and is based on respondents' self assessment, not on hours worked. Source: ONS Labour Force Survey (LFS) |
Mr. Laws: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what estimate he has made of the (a) total employment rate and (b) total full-time employment rate in the (i) 10 local authority areas and (ii) 10 local authority wards in the UK with the (A) highest and (B) lowest employment rates for the latest year for which information is available. [124620]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated 21 March 2007:
As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking what estimate has been made of the (a) total employment rate and (b) total full-time employment rate in the (i) 10 local authority areas and (ii) 10 local authority wards in the UK with the (A) highest and (B) lowest employment rates for the latest year for which information is available. (124620)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics of employment for local areas from the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation definitions.
Table 1, attached, shows employment rates, for persons of working age, for the 10 local authorities, in Great Britain, with the highest employment rates and the ten authorities with the lowest rates for the 12 months ending in June 2006 from the APS. Table 1 also shows the number of persons, aged 16 and over, in full-time and part-time employment expressed as a proportion of the total number of employed persons aged 16 and over.
As these estimates are for a subset of the population in a small geographical area, they are based on small sample sizes, and are therefore subject to large margins of uncertainty.
Table 2, attached, shows employment rates for persons of working age for persons of working age for the ten wards, in Great Britain, with the highest employment rates and the ten wards with the lowest rates from the 2001 Census as reliable ward data is not available from the APS. For clarity, the local authority of the ward is shown. Table 2 also shows the number of persons, aged 16 to 74, in full-time and part-time employment expressed as a proportion of the total number of employed persons aged 16 to 74.
Table 1: Employment rates and the percentages of people working full-time and part-time in the ten highest and ten lowest local authorities; Great Britain; July 2005 to June 2006 | |||
Percentage | |||
Proportion of all In employment( 1) aged 16 and over who are | |||
Local authority | Working age( 2) employment rate | Full-time( 3) | Part-time( 3) |
(1) Includes those who did not state whether they worked full-time or part-time. (2) Men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59. (3) Based on respondents self assessment not on hours worked. Estimates are subject to sampling variability. Excludes Isles of Scilly. Source: Annual Population Survey. |
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