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This dataset shows:

Employment rate age 16 to 64

• the proportion of people aged between 16 and 64 years in paid work or who had a job that they were temporarily away from

Economic inactivity rate age 16 to 64

• the proportion of people aged between 16 and 64 years who are not in employment but do not meet the internationally accepted definition of unemployment because they have not been seeking work within the last four weeks or they are unable to start work in the next two weeks

In Great Britain (Northern Ireland national figure included), for periods 10/2004-09/2005 to 10/2022-09/2023.

Coverage

GB (England, Wales and Scotland). Northern Ireland national figure included.

Geography definition

Local Authority Districts and Unitary Authorities, Regions, Combined Authorities, Nations (England, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland), Countries (UK, GB, England and Wales)

Source

• Great Britain: Office for National Statistics

Data is also available on NOMIS

Source Notes and Caveats

Calculation of employment rate: number of employed people aged 16 to 64 years divided by the population aged 16 to 64 years. Population is the sum of employed plus unemployed plus inactive.

Calculation of economic inactivity rate: number of economically inactive people aged 16 to 64 years divided by the population aged 16 to 64 years. Population is the sum of employed plus unemployed plus inactive.

How to read time intervals in ISO8601 format

This dataset uses custom time intervals format for periods, YYYY-MM-DDT00:00:00/PnI, where P tells that this is period; n is the number of intervals and I is interval type which can be Y(year), M(month), W(week), D(day). For example, from April 2019 to March 2022 is represented as 2019-04-01T00:00:00/P3Y, which can be read as '3 years period starts from 1st of April 2019 and ends on 31st March 2022'. For more instructions on how to read this, please visit Time intervals on Wikipedia.