§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Social Services whether the 1981 census return gives details of employment and unemployment; and when these will be available as national and district totals, not broken down by occupation.
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§ Mr. John PattenFigures are already available from the 1981 census returns showing the numbers in employment and unemployed. The local authority district totals were first published in a series of county monitors (reference CEN 81 CM1-CM54 published by OPCS between October 1981 and June 1982). More details appear in the County reports part 1 which were published by HMSO between March 1982 and October 1982 (reference CEN 81 CR1-CR54). The national figures were first published in an OPCS Monitor in June 1982 (reference CEN 81 CM57) and in the national report for Great Britain (CEN 81 NR(1) published by HMSO in February 1983). All these Monitors and reports have been laid before Parliament pursuant to Section 4(1) of the census Act 1920.