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Unemployment: Bexley

Answer

The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Stephen Penneck, dated March 2011:"As Director General for the Office for National Statistics, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking what recent estimate has been made of the number of workless households in a) Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and b) the London borough of Bexley (48106).""The figures requested come from the Annual Population Survey (APS) household datasets. The latest data currently available is for 2009. The attached table shows estimates for Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and the London borough of Bexley.""As with any sample survey, estimates from the APS are subject to a margin of uncertainty as different samples give different results. These estimates are such that there is 95 per cent certainty that from all samples possible they will lie within the lower and upper bounds."

Table 1: Number of workless households¹ in Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency and London borough of Bexley, January to December 2009
Thousand
	Estimate	Lower bound²	Upper bound²
Bexleyheath and Crayford constituency	7	5	9
London borough of Bexley	15	12	18
¹ Households containing at least one person aged 16 to 64, where all individuals aged 16 or over are not in employment.
² 95% confidence interval which means that from all samples possible there would be 95% certainty that the true estimate would lie within the lower and upper bounds.
Source:
APS household dataset

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

48106; 525 c1161-2W

Session

2010-12

Subjects

Bexley Unemployment

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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