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Employment

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated February 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what estimate he has made of the number of (a) people born in the UK and (b) migrant workers who were in employment in each month of 2008. (257518)""The attached table provides estimated employment levels for UK born and non-UK born people, for each quarter in 2008. Monthly data is not available.""The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey. As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty.""The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. Consequently the estimates are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics First Release, or the migrant workers figures published every quarter, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates."

People aged 16 and over in employment by country of birth, three-month period ending March, June, September and December 2008, United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
Thousand
2008	UK born	Non-UK born	Total¹
Q1	25,755	3,682	29,438
Q2	25,759	3,714	29,475
Q3	25,799	3,727	29,533
Q4²	*25,612	*3,823	*29,443
¹ Includes those whose country of birth was not known.
² Coefficients of Variation have been calculated for the latest period as an indication of the quality of the estimates. See Guide to Quality below.
Guide to Quality:
The Coefficient of Variation (CV) indicates the quality of an estimate, the smaller the CV value the higher the quality. The true value is likely to lie within +/- twice the CV - for example, for an estimate of 200 with a CV of 5 per cent. we would expect the population total to be within the range 180-220.
Key Coefficient of Statistical robustness
* 0 = CV <5 Estimates are considered precise.
** 5 = CV <10 Estimates are considered reasonably precise.
*** 10 = CV <20 Estimates are considered acceptable.
**** CV = 20 Estimates are considered too unreliable for practical purposes.
Note:
It should be noted that the above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (e.g. hotels, boarding houses, hostels, mobile home sites etc.).
Source:
Labour Force Survey.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

488 c395-6W; 257518

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Employment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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