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Labour Market Profile
Worcestershire

The profile brings together data from several sources. Details about these and related terminology are given in the definitions section. All figures are the most recent available. Use the tools at the top of each table to:   View time-series figures   Compare all areas in the region   Download data (Excel format)   Query the data in more detail   Resident population   In employment / unemployed   Economically inactive   Employment by occupation   Qualifications   Earnings by residence   Working-age benefits   Jobs (total jobs / employee jobs)   VAT registered businesses

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RESIDENT POPULATION

Total population (2007)

  

Working age population (2007)

  

LABOUR SUPPLY

Economically active (Jul 2007-Jun 2008)

  

Economically inactive (Jul 2007-Jun 2008)

  

Employment by occupation (Jul 2007-Jun 2008)

  

Qualifications (Jan 2007-Dec 2007)

  

Earnings by residence (2008)

  

WORKING-AGE BENEFITS

Total JSA claimants (November 2008)

  

JSA claimants by age and duration (November 2008)

  

Working-age client group - key benefit claimants (May 2008)

  

LABOUR DEMAND

Jobs density (2006)

  

Employee jobs (2007)

Earnings by workplace (2008)

  

BUSINESSES

VAT registered businesses (2007)

  

Definitions and Explanations

RESIDENT POPULATION

The estimated population of an area includes all those usually resident in the area, whatever their nationality. HM Forces stationed outside the United Kingdom are excluded but foreign forces stationed here are included. Students are taken to be resident at their term-time address.

Working age includes males aged 16 to 64 and females aged 16 to 59.

LABOUR SUPPLY

Labour supply consists of people who are employed, as well as those people defined as unemployed or economically inactive, who can be considered to be potential labour supply. Information in this section relates to the characteristics of people living in an area.

Most labour supply data comes from the Annual Population Survey (APS). The APS is the largest regular household survey in the United Kingdom. It includes data from the Labour Force Survey (LFS), plus further sample boosts in England, Wales and Scotland. The survey includes data from a sample of around 256,000 people aged 16 and over.

As APS estimates are based on samples, they are subject to sampling variability. This means that if another sample for the same period were drawn, a different estimate might be produced. In general, the larger the number of people in a sample, the smaller the variation between estimates. Estimates for smaller areas such as local authorities are therefore less reliable than those for larger areas such as regions. When the sample size is too small to produce reliable estimates, the estimates are replaced with a #.

Working age: always refers to females aged 16 to 59 and males aged 16 to 64.

Economically Active

Economically active: People who are either in employment or unemployed.

Economic activity rate: People, who are economically active, expressed as a percentage of all people.

In employment: People who did some paid work in the reference week (whether as an employee or self employed); those who had a job that they were temporarily away from (eg, on holiday); those on government-supported training and employment programmes; and those doing unpaid family work.

Employment rate: The number of people in employment expressed as a percentage of a