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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 June 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking how many and what proportion of (a) UK nationals, (b) UK born people, (c) foreign nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals, (e) EU A8 nationals and (f) non-EU nationals of working age in the UK were in employment in each of the last eight quarters for which figures are available. (280798)""The information requested is shown in the attached table. 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. This is assessed in a footnote to the table.""The figures in the table are derived from the LFS microdata which are weighted using the official population estimates published in autumn 2007. They are not entirely consistent with the figures published in the monthly Labour Market Statistics Statistical Bulletin, or the migrant worker figures published every quarter, which are weighted using more up-to-date population estimates."

Employment levels and rates for working age¹ people, by nationality and country of birth—three months ending March, June, September and December, 2007 to 2008 United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
Thousand and percentage
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK nationals²	Non-UK EU nationals	EU A8 nationals³	Non-EU nationals
	Number	Rate (%)	Number	Rate (%)	Number	Rate (%)	Number	Rate (%)	Number	Rate (%)	Number	Rate (%)
2007 Q2	25,784	75	24,508	75	2,103	68	969	77	431	82	1,134	62
2007 Q3	26,023	75	24,694	76	2,113	69	969	78	430	84	1,144	62
2007 Q4	26,050	76	24,718	78	2,173	68	1,010	79	469	84	1,163	61
2008 Q1	25,870	75	24,547	75	2,254	69	1,068	79	500	83	1,186	62
2008 Q2	25,882	75	24,532	75	2,266	69	1,065	79	498	84	1,201	62
2008 Q3	25,928	75	24,580	76	2,279	69	1,045	79	504	84	1,234	63
2008 Q4	25,749	75	24,372	75	2,342	69	1,052	77	470	81	1,290	63
2009 Q14	*25,454	74	*24,067	74	*2,313	69	*1,097	78	**500	83	*1,215	62
¹ Men aged 16-64 and women aged 16-59.
² Excludes those whose nationality was not known.
³ EU A8 comprises Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.
4 Coefficients of Variation have been calculated as an indication of the quality of the estimates, as described 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 Variation (CV) (%) 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
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

494 c706-8W; 280798

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Employment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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