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I have been asked to reply.The information requested falls within the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the authority to reply.Letter from Jil Matheson, dated November 2009:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question on the number of households in (a) England, (b) the North East, (c) Tees Valley and (d) Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency which had no-one in employment in each year since 1997. (297145).""The available information is provided in the attached tables. Estimates for England and the North East are provided from the Labour Force Survey (LFS) household datasets, for the years 1997 to 2009, covering the three months to June in each year, the period at which specially designed household datasets are available.""This information is taken from the annual Statistical Bulletin titled, "Work and worklessness among households" which can be found here:""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=8552""http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=8552""Estimates for areas within the North East are not available from the LFS household datasets.""Estimates for Tees Valley & Durham and Middlesbrough South & East Cleveland have been provided from the Annual Population Survey (APS), which combines four quarters of the LFS and sample boosts, to produce an annual estimate. Estimates on this basis are available from 2004, the first year the household datasets are available, to 2008, for the calendar year January to December.""Figures for households are based on working age households. A working-age household is a household that includes at least one person of working-age, that is a woman aged 16 to 59 or a man aged 16 to 64."<Table width="100%" summary="" cellspacing="3" cellpadding="3" border="0"><thead><tr><th>Number of Workless working-age¹ households in England and North East Region—not seasonally adjusted</th></tr></thead><TR><TD>Thousand</TD></TR><TR><TD>April to June each year</TD><TD>England</TD><TD>North East</TD></TR><TR><TD>1997</TD><TD>2,503</TD><TD>180</TD></TR><TR><TD>1998</TD><TD>2,482</TD><TD>192</TD></TR><TR><TD>1999</TD><TD>2,396</TD><TD>192</TD></TR><TR><TD>2000</TD><TD>2,315</TD><TD>176</TD></TR><TR><TD>2001</TD><TD>2,338</TD><TD>182</TD></TR><TR><TD>2002</TD><TD>2,368</TD><TD>177</TD></TR><TR><TD>2003</TD><TD>2,330</TD><TD>173</TD></TR><TR><TD>2004</TD><TD>2,292</TD><TD>179</TD></TR><TR><TD>2005</TD><TD>2,370</TD><TD>173</TD></TR><TR><TD>2006</TD><TD>2,296</TD><TD>148</TD></TR><TR><TD>2007</TD><TD>2,482</TD><TD>153</TD></TR><TR><TD>2008</TD><TD>2,388</TD><TD>168</TD></TR><TR><TD>2009</TD><TD>2,508</TD><TD>186</TD></TR><tfoot><TR><td>¹ A working-age household is a household that includes at least one person of working-age, that is a woman aged 16 to 59 or a man aged 16 to 64.</td></TR><TR><td>Notes:</td></TR><TR><td>1. Figures have not been adjusted to include estimates for households with unknown economic activity</td></TR><TR><td>2. Excludes households with unknown economic activity status.</td></TR><TR><td>Source:</td></TR><TR><td>ONS Labour Force Survey</td></TR></tfoot></Table> |