Community Programme (Hansard, 14 July 1986)

§ Mr. Sheerman

asked the Paymaster General on the basis of the second postal follow-up survey of past

Table 1 Age by Sex
	18 to 20	20 to 24	25+
	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage	Number	Percentage
Male	164	75	152	76	216	64
Female	55	25	49	24	121	36
Total	219	100	201	100	337	100

The sample sizes are too small to permit full further analysis in the detail requested, but, as a guide, over 90 per cent. of males in the 18 to 20 age group were single; about 90 per cent. of males in the 20 to 24 age group were single; about 80 per cent. of females in the 18 to 24 age group were single; about one third of males in the 25 and over age group were single; about one in six females aged 25 and over were single.

As for full-time/part-time employment on CP, 25 per cent. of males in the 18 to 20 and 20 to 24 age groups, who were in work at the time of the survey, had been employed full time on CP; about 30 per cent. of females in the 18 to 24 age group had been employed full-time on CP; in the 25 and over age group, about one half of males had been employed full time on CP; in the 25 and over age group, about one in eight females had been employed full-time on CP.

As for full-time/part-time employment at the time of the survey, about 90 per cent. of males, in all age groups, who were in work at the time of the survey were in full-time employment; about three quarters of females in the age range 18 to 24 were in full-time employment; about one third of those females aged 25 and over were in full-time employment.

In producing the preceding figures, the phrase,"longterm unemployed" has been taken to refer to all participants on the community programme, and thus includes the full sample of ex-participants who were in employment at the time of the survey.

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participants on the community programme, in respect of those long-term unemployed community programe entrants that were in employment at the time of the survey, and for the following three standard eligibility by age groups, 18 to 20 years, 20 to 24 years, and 25 and over years, if he will provide the number and percentage that were (a) male and (i) married and (ii) single, separated, divorced or widowed and (b) female and (i) married and (ii) single, separated, divorced, or widowed; and for each latter group and sub-group if he will provide the number and percentage that were working full-time or part-time: (I) while on the programme and (II) at the time of the follow-up survey.