Official Statistics
13. Employment gaps for various protected characteristics: data table
Updated 11 July 2014
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| 13. Employment gaps for various protected characteristics |
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| Data source |
| Labour Force Survey |
| Time period and availability |
| This indicator provides GB employment rates and gaps for women, disabled people, ethnic minorities, young adults and older workers in comparison to the overall population. |
| Data available approximately six weeks after the end of each quarter. |
| Data are seasonally unadjusted so only year on year comparisons can be made. |
| What does this tell us? |
| The employment rate gap compares the overall employment rate in Great Britain for 16 to 64 year olds with the employment rate for 16 to 64 year olds with the characteristics described in the table. |
| A positive employment rate gap means that the overall Great Britain employment rate is higher than the employment rate for the group described. |
| How will an improvement be shown? |
| A reduction in the employment gap would generally show an improvement. However, economic conditions will also need to be taken into account. |
| Table 13.1: Employment rates and gaps for various protected characteristics, Quarter 1 2014 (January - March 2014) |
| Overall |
| Female |
| Disabled People |
| Ethnic Minorities |
| Young People (aged 18 to 24) |
| Older Workers (aged 50 to 64) |
| Female |
| Disabled People |
| Ethnic Minorities |
| Young People (aged 18 to 24) |
| Older Workers (aged 50 to 64) |
| There have been no statistically significant changes in the employment rate gap since last year. |
| Source: Labour Force Survey |
| Notes: |
| 1. Data is rounded to the nearest 0.1 percentage points |
| 2. Data is subject to sampling variation and is not seasonally adjusted |
| 3. Data covers GB only, not UK |
| 4. The groups described by this indicator reflect the disadvantaged groups described within the former Public Service Agreement (PSA) 8 'Maximise employment opportunity for all’. Although PSAs are no longer used, information on the employment rates for the disadvantaged groups continues to be provided for the purposes of consistency over time. |
| 5. Ethnic Minority represents all non-white ethnicities. |
| 6. Due to a change in the disability questions on the Labour Force Survey from Q2 2013, a comparison between Q1 2014 disability employment rate and previous years is not possible. |
| 7. Components may not sum to totals due to rounding. |
| 8. A small number of the above figures have been slightly revised by 0.1 percentage point from the previous release due to a correction in rounding interpretation. This applies to the 2012 employment rate gap figures for females, disabled people and young people, and the 2013 employment rate gap figure for ethnic minorities This does not affect the rounded figures published in the 2013 DWP Equality Information Report. |