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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 July 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what proportion of the working age population in employment in the UK consisted of (a) UK nationals, (b) UK born people, (c) non-UK nationals, (d) non-UK EU nationals and (e) non-EU nationals in (i) each year since 1992 and (ii) the last four quarters for which figures are available. (286460)""The available information requested is shown in the attached table. The estimates are derived from the Labour Force Survey (LFS). 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. 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."

Proportion of working age¹ population in employment by nationality and country of birth. Three month periods ending March 1995 to 2008; three month periods ending June, September, December and March, 2008 to 2009. United Kingdom, not seasonally adjusted
Percentage
	UK nationals	UK born	Non-UK nationals	Non-UK EU nationals²	Non-EU nationals
1995 Q1	97	93	3	2	2
1996 Q1	97	93	3	2	2
1997 Q1	96	93	3	2	2
1998 Q1	96	92	4	2	2
1999 Q1	96	92	4	2	2
2000 Q1	96	92	4	2	2
2001 Q1	96	92	4	2	3
2002 Q1	95	91	5	2	3
2003 Q1	95	91	5	2	3
2004 Q1	95	91	5	2	3
2005 Q1	94	90	6	2	4
2006 Q1	94	89	6	3	4
2007 Q1	93	88	7	3	4
2008 Q1	92	87	8	4	4
2008 Q2	92	87	8	4	4
2008 Q3	92	87	8	4	4
2008 Q4	92	87	8	4	5
2009 Q1	92	87	8	4	4
¹ Men aged 16-94 and women aged 16-59.
² The EU comprises Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden. The A8 (Czech Republic Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) joined the EU on 1 May 2004 and are included from 2005 Q1 onwards. Bulgaria and Romania joined the EU on 1 January 2007 and are included from 2007 Q1 onwards.
Note:
The above estimates exclude people in most types of communal establishment (eg hotels, boarding houses, hostels mobile home sites etc.).
Source:
Labour Force Survey

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

286460; 496 c456-7W

Session

2008-09

Subjects

Employment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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