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answer text: The information requested falls with the responsibility of the UK Statistics Authority. I have asked the Authority to reply.Letter from Karen Dunnell, dated June 2008:"As National Statistician, I have been asked to reply to your Parliamentary Question asking for the top 20 nationalities in the category, Rest of the World in table three of the ONS document, Employment of Foreign Workers in the United Kingdom (1997 to 2008) in each year since 1997. [207629]""The Office for National Statistics provided the information in table three of the article using the Labour Force Survey (LFS). The National Statistics method for estimating the number of migrant workers employed in the UK is based on the number of people at a given time who were born outside the UK, age 16 or over, and in employment. This question has been answered on this basis. It means, for example, that some people who are UK nationals will be included in the total. Those in employment are defined following International Labour Organisation definitions.""Table 1, attached, shows estimates of the total number of persons employed who were born outside the UK, for the top 20 countries that were part of the Rest of the World category in table 3, for the time period requested. It should be noted that the EU15 (the UK and 14 European Union member States) and the eight countries that joined the EU in 2004 are excluded from the top 20 ranking.""As with any sample survey, estimates from the LFS are subject to a margin of uncertainty. This should be taken into account when basing conclusions on the ranking of the countries provided." Employment levels¹ of the top 20 foreign countries of birth², ³ from excluding the EU15 and A8 1997 to 20084 Thousand Rank Country Levels 1997 1 India 197 2 Pakistan 80 3 Kenya 76 4 Jamaica 63 5 USA 62 6 South Africa 54 7 Australia 49 8 Bangladesh 42 9 Hong Kong 39 10 Canada 35 11 Uganda 32 12 Nigeria 32 13 Singapore 29 14 New Zealand 29 15 Cyprus 28 16 Ghana 25 17 Tanzania 25 18 Malaysia 2…
answer given date: 2008-06-05+01:00
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