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Robert Neill: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer how many individuals were classed as economically inactive in each London borough for each of the last 10 years. [133787]
John Healey: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Colin Mowl, dated 27 April 2007:
The National Statistician has been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question concerning the number of individuals classed as economically inactive in each London borough for each of the last 10 years. I am replying in her absence. (133787)
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) compiles statistics of inactivity for local areas from the annual local area Labour Force Survey (LFS) and the Annual Population Survey (APS) following International Labour Organisation definitions.
Table 1, attached, shows the number of economically inactive persons of working age (males aged 16 to 64 and females aged 16 to 59) resident in the London boroughs, from the annual local area LFS for the 12-month periods ending in February from 1997 to 2004 and from the APS for the 12-month periods ending in March from 2005 to 2006. Table 2 shows these numbers expressed as a percentage of the resident working-age population.
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. Changes in the estimates over time should be treated with caution.
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