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Friday, 2 November 2012
Families And Households 2012
There were 18.2m families in the UK in 2012 according to a statistical bulletin from the ONS. Married couple family types (including civil partnerships) are the most common family type in the UK in 2012. The number of married families without dependent children was 7.6m and the number with dependent children was 4.6m.
The number of families consisting of a married couple with or without children was 12.2m. Cohabiting couple families increased significantly from 1.5m in 1996 to 2.9m in 2012. The number of dependent children in cohabiting families increased from 0.9m to 1.8m.
In 2012, 38% of married couples had dependent children compared with 39% of cohabiting families. Lone parent families with dependent children has increased steadily since 1996 from 1.6m to 2m.
There were 26.4m households in the UK in 2012. Nearly 20% consisted of 4 or more people and 29% consisted of 1 only person.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Employment Position Of Disadvantaged Groups Has Improved
Most of the groups who face barriers to work have increased their position relative to the rest of the workforce over the last 10-15 years according to the Economic and Labour Market Review from the ONS.
The Public Service Agreements 2007 identified six groups as facing barriers in employment: the disabled, lone parents, ethnic minorities, the over 50s, the lowest qualified and those living in the most deprived local authority wards. The gap closed most was for lone parents who were only 17 percentage points behind the rest of the population in 2009 compared with 30 points in 1997. The disabled gap has closed to 31 percentage points in 2009 from 41 in 1998. Those in deprived areas saw little change between 2003 and 2009.
The only group for whom the gap widened was those with the lowest qualifications increasing from 17 to 22 percentge points between 1995 and 2009. The workforce has become better qualified since then and fewer peole are in that category now.
The report also suggests that those who are in more than one disadvantaged group are less likely to be employed. The employment rate for those who are not in any disadvantaged group was 82%, for those in one disadvantaged group it was 75%, in two groups 62% and for those in five or six disadvantaged groups the employment rate went down to 15%. People are also more likely to become economically inactive rather than unemployed the more disadvantaged groups they are in. The proportion of the population that were unemployed did not change much according to the number of disadvantaged groups a person was in, 5.1% to 8.2% for those in five or six groups, but the economically inactive increased from 12% to 77% for those in five or six groups.
The Public Service Agreements 2007 identified six groups as facing barriers in employment: the disabled, lone parents, ethnic minorities, the over 50s, the lowest qualified and those living in the most deprived local authority wards. The gap closed most was for lone parents who were only 17 percentage points behind the rest of the population in 2009 compared with 30 points in 1997. The disabled gap has closed to 31 percentage points in 2009 from 41 in 1998. Those in deprived areas saw little change between 2003 and 2009.
The only group for whom the gap widened was those with the lowest qualifications increasing from 17 to 22 percentge points between 1995 and 2009. The workforce has become better qualified since then and fewer peole are in that category now.
The report also suggests that those who are in more than one disadvantaged group are less likely to be employed. The employment rate for those who are not in any disadvantaged group was 82%, for those in one disadvantaged group it was 75%, in two groups 62% and for those in five or six disadvantaged groups the employment rate went down to 15%. People are also more likely to become economically inactive rather than unemployed the more disadvantaged groups they are in. The proportion of the population that were unemployed did not change much according to the number of disadvantaged groups a person was in, 5.1% to 8.2% for those in five or six groups, but the economically inactive increased from 12% to 77% for those in five or six groups.
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