Employment and Skills

Proportion of children living in workless households Children aged 0-15 living in a household including at least one person aged 16 to 64. with no person in employment. Percentages are based on children living in working-age households with known economic activity status. Source: Annual Population Survey Household datasets, ONS

Summary statistics from Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD). The spreadsheet includes borough data from 2000, 2004 and 2007. The latest Indices of Deprivation data for 2010 can be found here. The Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007 combines a number of indicators, chosen to cover a range of economic, social and housing issues, into a single deprivation score for each small area in...

This report from the GLA Intelligence Unit looks at the recent release of Worklessness Statistics from the Office for National Statistics and presents the key messages for London. Key findings London has among the lowest proportions of all-working households of any region in the UK, but also below average proportion of workless households. ...

Two years after the UK recession ended in the final quarter of 2009, came a decrease in GDP in the final quarter of 2011 and the first quarter of 2012, signifying an official “double dip” recession. This Update looks at key labour market indicators since the beginning of the recession period in 2008. It presents the latest national and London...